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

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Note that Savannah supports projects of the Free Software movement, not
projects of the Open Source movement.

We are careful about ethical issues and insist on producing software
that is not dependent on proprietary software.

While Open Source as defined by its founders means
something pretty close to Free Software, it's frequently
misunderstood.  For more information, please see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html.


Also, please add a copyright and license header to
themes/donorge/donorge_theme.css.


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,

-- 
Sylvain

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:06:12PM +0200, donorge.org - C. Planken wrote:
> > Do you want us to continue reviewing your project? If yes, I will take
> > care of it.
> 
> Yes please thank you.
> 
> Casper Planken
> 
> 
> > On Thursday 07 October 2004 21:05, Sylvain Beucler wrote: 
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > 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,

-- 
Sylvain