[Savannah-hackers] submission of Demi - savannah.nongnu.org

[Alaska Subedi]

Hi,

I am reviewing the project you submitted for inclusion in Savannah.
I apologize that it took so long for your project to be reviewed.

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>Dark Angel <address@hidden> described the package as
>follows:
>License: gpl
>Other License:
>Package: Demi
>System name: demi
>Type: non-GNU
>
>Description:
>Demi is an object-oriented library for Gameboy Advance programming.
>The main
>purpose of this project is to standardize commonly used aspects of GBA
>programming with an integrated standard library.
>
>It's written for use with GBA port of the GNU compiler DevKit Advance
>(http://sf.net/projects/devkitadv).
>
>Current source code is avaialable at
>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/demi/
>
>Other Software Required:
>DevKitAdv - http://sf.net/projects/devkitadv
>
>Other Comments:

The policy of Savannah is to host projects that can be run on free
operating system such as Debain GNU/Linux. But Gameboy Advance is a
proprietary platform. Does Demi run in a free GBA emulator, such as
``VisualBoyAdvance'' under GNU/Linux without using any proprietary
ROM?

We have adopted this policy because now that completely free operating
systems exist, we do not want to encourage users of those systems to
start using proprietary operating systems so that they can use your
program.

If you are willing to maintain a version for free operating systems,
which work as well as or better than other ports, you can then provide
versions for non-free systems as well.  The idea is that at no point
should only-free users be at a disadvantage compared to users of
proprietary software.

Please address this issue and I'll go over this project again.

Regards,

Alaska Subedi