[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of CURLGET Project

[Art Hung]

Hi

Wow, there are many thing need to learn for join this community. :-)
 If I do anything inappropriately please inform to me ~

http://empty.idv.tw/curlget/curlget.tgz

Best Regards
Art

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sylvain Beucler" <address@hidden>
To: "art" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: submission of CURLGET Project


> 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,