[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of CURLGET Project

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

It would be more appropriate to follow carefully the GNU GPL howto
instructions: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

First, you can just remove the "Copyright Notice : " text in the
copyright notice line. That's the standard way to include a copyright
notice.

You should also include verbatim the standard licence notice that
already contain legal text to tell that the program is realeased under
the GNU GPL version 2 or later. It is also available from the GNU GPL
howto.

Please provide us with an URL to an updated tarball of your project
and I will approve your project.

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain


On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 03:10:14AM +0800, Art Hung wrote:
> 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,