[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of CURLGET Project

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hello,

Currently your project description is only used by the Savannah
hackers to review your project. Once a project is approved, you then
can add your public description of the project.


I checked your tarball and there are two problems:

First, licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only" is problematic.  Would
you agree to license your project under the "GNU GPL v2 or later"?

The reason for this is that when we publish GPL v3, it will be
important for all GPL-covered programs to advance to GPL v3.  If you
don't put this in the files now, the only way to port your program to
GPL v3 would be to ask each and every copyright holder, and that may
be very difficult.

We can explain the issue in more detail if you wish.  If you have
concerns about "GNU GPL v2 or later", we'd be happy to address them
too.


Second, you should write an appropriate copyright notice as descripbed
at www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html


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 Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:38:09PM +0800, art wrote:
> Dear Sir
> 
> I would like to follow GNU spirit to contribute to this community, so
> please help me to change the Project Discription from Linux to
> GNU/Linux. 
> 
> I already do some modification for my project.
> 
> Tarball file can be download from the url below
> 
> http://empty.idv.tw/curlget/curlget.tgz
> 
> many thank for your kindly help and information~
> 
> Best Regards
> Art
> 
> ?b ?|, 2004-10-28 20:57, Sylvain Beucler ?g?D?G
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
> > 
> > > CURLGET Project - GNU - GPL
> > > 
> > > Project Admins:
> > > Art Hung <address@hidden> ;
> > > 
> > > Registration Date:
> > > Mon 10/25/2004 at 15:26
> > > 
> > > System Group Name:
> > > curlget
> > > 
> > > Submitted Description:
> > > This Project is to create a userful tools which similer to the Windows
> > > program Flashget but running on Linux Enviroment. You can download
> > > executable PERL Script from the url
> > > below. http://empty.idv.tw/curlget/curlget I am also welcome your join
> > > for improve this program.
> > > 
> > > Required software:
> > > For running this script you have to install following program.
> > > 1. Perl 5.x
> > > 2. CURL
> > 
> > "Linux" is just a kernel of a more complex system that we like to
> > refer to as GNU/Linux, to emphasize the ideals of the Free Software
> > movement.
> > 
> > Would you mind changing references to Linux as an OS to GNU/Linux?
> > 
> > For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.
> > 
> > 
> > Moreover, 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.
> > 
> > In addition, if you haven't already, please include a copy of the
> > plain text version of the GPL, available from
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt, into a file named "COPYING".
> > 
> > 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, beware that the URL actually is
> > http://empty.idv.tw/curlget/curlget.gz
> > 
> > 
> > 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,