Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of donorge - savannah.nongnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

Your project seems fine except for the jpgraph dependency.  Aside from
the fact the QPL is incompatible with the GNU GPL and cannot legally
be used by donorge, JpGraph is released with an additional that makes
it non-free: "(Please note that the license does not allow the the
free version to be used in a commercial context."

So your project requires proprietary software and cannot be hosted on
Savannah for this reason.

Savannah is willing to provide resources and time to developers
writing Free Software that can be used without the need to ask
permission from proprietary software vendor.

You are welcome to register again your project if you get rid of this
dependency.

Thank you for your understanding.
Regards,

-- 
Sylvain


> Casper Planken <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: donorge
> System name: donorge
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> Donorge is to be a donation webservice aimed at optimizing on-line donations, 
> in particular for open source projects. Donorge is coded in PHP and relies 
> heavily on Drupal(Drupal is a CMS (Content Management System) for websites 
> and also based on the GPL). Technically, donorge is a module for Drupal 
> (http://drupal.org). Donorge already has a dedicated server for itself. 
> Donorge has been developed privately for many months and the first 
> "http://testing.donorge.org"; is now on-line. (when finalized will move to 
> http://donorge.org) The code for this testing release can be found at 
> http://testing.donorge.org/donorge.tar.gz
> 
> Other Software Required:
> Donorge uses jpgraph for drawing graphs, which is QPL licensed. The core 
> dependency is Drupal which is GPL licensed. Donorge is coded using PHP only 
> and uses MySQL for a database solution.