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

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

It seems some hacker forgot your project :/ I didn't know it was so
long ago when I answered your support request.

Do you want us to continue reviewing your project? If yes, I will take
care of it.

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Sylvain

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:47:44AM +0200, donorge.org - C. Planken wrote:
> Hello Elfyn McBratney,
> 
> On the GIF issue, I was already aware of this, actually GIF in Dutch means: 
> "poison" and that pretty much sums up my view on the GIF image file format. 
> It was first my understanding that you simply do not want GIF images to be 
> hosted on the web space you make available for projects.
> 
> However, I can assure you that the Donorge project has no single GIF 
> dependency! The GIF images you came across are old leftovers or part of 
> testing items and are not required by Donorge. But I understand your point of 
> view and have removed the unneeded files and converted the other 2 to PNG 
> (altough we wont need these current samples for long). Please understand that 
> the PNG image file format is the default and prefered only one used with 
> Donorge.
> 
> To put it simply: all GIF images have been removed/converted, a new tar is 
> available here: http://testing.donorge.org/donorge.tar.gz and PNG is the 
> standard image file format for Donorge. The testing project itself on 
> http://testing.donorge.org now also uses the updated tar.
> 
> Regards,
> Casper Planken
> 
> On Sunday 12 September 2004 00:42, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:56:54AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> > > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> > > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > >
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> > Please remove GIF image files from your project and replace them with an
> > other format (such as PNG or JPEG).
> >
> > Because of the patents (Unisys and IBM) covering the LZW compression
> > algorithm which are used when making GIF files, it's impossible to have
> > free software to generate proper GIFs.  They also apply to the compress
> > program.
> >
> > For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html.
> >
> > > Other Software Required:
> > > Donorge was submitted last week with a QPL software dependency, this
> > > dependency has been removed entirely. This means Donorge no longer
> > > depends on jpgraph which is QPL licensed. The graph drawing code has been
> > > recoded and now uses optimized code written for donorge itself (Donorge
> > > values the GPL philosophy). The core dependency is Drupal which is GPL
> > > licensed. Donorge is coded using PHP only and uses MySQL for a database
> > > solution.
> > >
> > > Other Comments:
> > > Removed the QPL dependency!
> >
> > If you are willing to make the changes mentioned above, please provide
> > us with an URL to an updated tarball of your project.  Upon review, we
> > will reconsider your project for inclusion in Savannah.
> >
> > Regards,
> 
> 
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Sylvain