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

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:50:02PM +0200, donorge.org - C. Planken wrote:
> On Friday 08 October 2004 22:56, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Note that Savannah supports projects of the Free Software movement, not
> > projects of the Open Source movement.
> 
> Please understand that I realize this. Please understand that this is the 
> reason I chose Savannah in the first place.

Sorry, I forgot to point out that I saw some references to "open
source" at testing.donorge.org - hence why I added this notice.


> > We are careful about ethical issues and insist on producing software
> > that is not dependent on proprietary software.
> 
> By now, it should be clear that Donorge does not want to depend on 
> proprietary 
> software. Is there any reason or specific thing which makes you mention this 
> in your reply or was this to explain why you rejected the project earlier?

It is just part of the explaination free software vs. open source.

I first rejected your project because jpgraph was released under the
QPL *plus non-commercial restriction*, btw.


> You do make a good point to once again point out these differences between 
> Open and Free software and I will also have changes made to the Donorge site 
> to better reflect this.

That was the (obscure) point of that paragraph.


> > Also, please add a copyright and license header to
> > themes/donorge/donorge_theme.css.
> 
> Corrected this: http://testing.donorge.org/donorge.tar.gz

Fine!

I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail
containing detailed information about the approval.

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain