Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Quantum Coreworld - savannah.nongnu.org

[Alexander (Sasha) Wait]

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 18:02, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Can you add explicit copyright and license notices to these documents?
> If verbosity is an issue, check
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto.html for a smaller notice that
> refers to the main document (if you have one).
> 
OK 

> Moreover, you cannot include coreworld-standard.txt at Savannah until
> you are sure that you can distribute it under the GNU GPL.
> 
I will contact the copyright holders (if I can).  The original
"standard" was posted to Usenet without a copyright notice.  One might
think it is in the public domain but I am not a lawyer.    

> I see a small non-standard GDFL notice:
> "with the Invariant Sections being just Philosophy and Acknowledgements"
> 
> The word 'just' should not be included; the GFDL permits to add
> Invariant section in future releases, and it could be misinterpreted.
> 
> Also, you do not need to explicitely cite Acknowledgements, as it is
> already covered by section 4.K of the GNU FDL.
> 
> Each part of the document should carry a small copyright+license
> notice as described in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto.html
> 
OK

> Last, you need to include a full copy of the GNU FDL along with your
> document.  The GPL FAQ explains why these procedures must be followed.
> For example, to learn why a copy of the GPL must be included with
> every copy of the code, for example, go to
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyMustIInclude
> 
> Don't feel sorry for adding that document, it is my job to point to
> good licensing practices ;)
> 
Thanks for all the information! 

> Elfyn is working on Arch, and we already began discussing the problem
> Arch brings (namely, the fact that the repository is accessible by
> SFTP, with less repository protection than with CVS).
> 
> I won't hide you that we have other issues with higher priority at the
> moment, but be sure we are interested in supporting Arch :)

It's good to hear you may support Arch in the future.  I'm writing a
document about "Managing the Quantum Coreworld Project with GNU Arch". I
hope it will be generic enough to be useful to others. Early draft at: 

      * 
http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Managing_20the_20Quantum_20Coreworld_20Project_20with_20GNU_20Arch


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