Re: [Savannah-hackers] Custom license for new savannah.nongnu.org project?

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

This license looks free and compatible with the GNU GPL, hence can be
used for a Savannah project.

If you want confirmation, you may want to ask address@hidden about
it.

On a side now, 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.

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 04:25:35PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm currently looking for a place to hosting the POOMA library.
> Apart from SourceForge there is you (savannah.nongnu.org) and
> Gna! that I consider.  A problem may be the POOMA library
> isn't licensed under one of the well-known open source licenses,
> but rather:
> 
> -----
> This software and ancillary information (herein called "SOFTWARE")
> called POOMA (Parallel Object-Oriented Methods and Applications) is
> made available under the terms described here.  The SOFTWARE has been
> approved for release with associated LA-CC Number LA-CC-98-65.
> 
> Unless otherwise indicated, this SOFTWARE has been authored by an
> employee or employees of the University of California, operator of the
> Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. W-7405-ENG-36 with
> the U.S. Department of Energy.  The U.S. Government has rights to use,
> reproduce, and distribute this SOFTWARE. The public may copy, distribute,
> prepare derivative works and publicly display this SOFTWARE without
> charge, provided that this Notice and any statement of authorship are
> reproduced on all copies.  Neither the Government nor the University
> makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any liability or
> responsibility for the use of this SOFTWARE.
> 
> If SOFTWARE is modified to produce derivative works, such modified
> SOFTWARE should be clearly marked, so as not to confuse it with the
> version available from LANL.
> -----
> 
> This sounds like a BSD-ish license, and to comply with the last
> sentence it is probably enough to call the project OpenPOOMA or
> similar.  I'd amend the license so that newly contributed code
> would fall under the MIT license which seems compatible to the
> above.
> 
> Would you guys at savannah be happy to host this project?
> 
> Thanks for information,