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

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

My concerns was that your code is released under the GNU GPL, and also
rely on LaTeX libraries such as prosper, released under the LLPL,
which is GPL-incompatible.

So first, you need to state an exception that you allow 'linking' your
LaTeX classes with the LaTeX packages you use. See:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs


Then, anybody using your classes will have to release its
documentation under the GNU GPL. This may be what you want, and it is
acceptable, but I would like you to confirm me this fact. If you
don't, maybe you could use the GNU LGPL instead.


In order to release your project properly and unambiguously under the
GPL, please place copyright notices and permission-to-copy statements
at the beginning of every file of source code, not a single one. Every
file of more than 10 lines should contain a copyright and license
notice.

For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.

The GPL FAQ explains why these procedures must be followed.  To learn
why a copy of the GPL must be included with every copy of the code, for
example, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyMustIInclude.


Last, the copyright notice you use is not perfectly valid because it
uses '2001-2003'. See
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html for
further information.

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 Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 11:03:27AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We did receive your submission, but we wanted some legal advice from
> the FSF's GNU GPL Compliance Lab.
> 
> Unfortunately the Lab has some backlog at the moment and is not able
> to reply to us with the usual quick response time :/
> 
> So we did not forget about your submission, we just need time to
> process it.
> 
> I sent a mail to the FSF to check when we can get the usual reply time
> again.
> 
> Thanks for your patience,
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 07:07:34AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > 
> > Rafael Bohrer Ávila <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > License: gpl
> > Other License: 
> > Package: iiufrgs
> > System name: iiufrgs
> > Type: non-GNU
> > 
> > Description:
> > This is a collection of LaTeX classes and style files for use by students 
> > and researchers at Instituto de Informatica/UFRGS.  The kinds of documents 
> > produced by this package include masters and phd theses, technical reports, 
> > letters and slides, but the main class can be used for general-purpose 
> > documents where the format adopted by II/UFRGS might be convenient.
> > 
> > URL for download: 
> > http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/utug/download/iiufrgs-4.2.0.tar.bz2
> > 
> > Other Software Required:
> > tetex