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

[Jonathan Gonzalez V.]

address@hidden (Jonathan Gonzalez V.) writes:

Hi David Decotigny:

I'm waiting for an answer from you.

If within one week I still do not get a reply, I will remove your
project. You will still be able to register it again once you have the
time to deal with the registration issues. 

Regards,

> David Decotigny <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi David Decotigny:
>
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> Jonathan Gonzalez V. wrote:
>>> You didn't send an URL to download the code of your project, can you
>>> send me the code to my email (address@hidden)?
>>
>> No problem. Actually, I should have checked the checkbox "link to web
>> site"  instead of the other checkbox (something like "real site on
>> savannah") when I registered SOS in savannah. Because we already have
>> a website where we distribute everything. But in addition to a simple
>> link to the website, I would have liked to have a public cvs server
>> somewhere for people to checkout the latest version of the
>> source. That is the main reason why I registered SOS in savannah (to
>> benefit from a public cvs server).
>>
>> Anyway, you'll find everything regarding SOS at this address :
>>    http://sos.enix.org
>> The website and the published articles are in french, but the code is
>> in english. If you don't understand French and you only would like to
>> review the code, please go directly here to download the code :
>>    http://sos.enix.org/wiki/upload/SOSDownload/
>> Or, with some explanations (in french) :
>>    http://sos.enix.org/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=SOSDownload
>>
>> The principle is to release the code 1 month after the paper article
>> is published. Actually, we have the code up to article 5 (even 6), but
>> we won't release them all before december 2004 (february 2005). For
>> the time being, we make only the articles 1..3 public, the 4th article
>> will be realeased on the SOS website by the end of next week. If you
>> would like to see the latest "tested" version (article 5, not yet
>> published), I can send it to you (just tell me), but I ask you not to
>> distribute it before december 2004. I don't know if this wish goes
>> against the GPL...
>
> I would like to review the code that you will put in Savannah, because
> the problems have to be fixed in the version that we sill host, so
> please send me to my email(address@hidden) the latest source
> code. You can make the release version whenever you want it, there's
> no problem to make the release in 1 month, but you have to know that
> the CVS will contain the latest version of the code and not a release.
>
>>> I wish to review the code to catch potential legal issues early and
>>
>> I wrote all the _code_ from scratch, the only exception being
>> sos/klibc.c where I re-used the BSD prototypes (for sure), and
>> apparently some code of it (I have to check this). For some algorithms
>> and key-ideas, I used our previous work done in Kos
>> (http://kos.enix.org), hence the "KOS Team" credits on some
>> headers/sources.
>
> There's no problem to give the Copyright Notices to other people, but
> we have to be sure that these piece of code are under a GPL-Compatible
> license. Consider to check the all the possible files with piece of
> code that was made it for other people. I'll check the new code, but
> can you send me a list of all the things that wasn't made it by you?
>
> I already made a check to the article3 source code, I found some
> little license problems. Any file with more than 10 lines should carry
> on a Copyright License even the files like README and INSTALL should
> carry a Copyright License that can be the GNU FDL, to learn more about
> how to use the GNU GPL license you can check this URL:
>
>     http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
>
> And to read the GNU FDL and how to use it, read this URL:
>
>     http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
>
> I saw some files with Copyright to the Free Software Foundation, can
> you tell me where you get this files?
>
> Consider this changes before send me the latest source code,
> so the review to the source code will be more faster.
>
> Best Regards
>
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