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

[Jonathan Gonzalez V.]

address@hidden (Jonathan Gonzalez V.) writes:

Hi J. Ali Harlow:

I reviewed your source code and I found some legal issues.

You should use (C) instead (c), this should be fixed.

As you said you will licensed your program under the GNU LGPL, any
file with more than 10 lines should carry on the Copyright and Notices
License, consider to read this URL to learn how to use the GNU LGPL::

         http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html

What is the license of the files copyrighted by "Slash'EM Development
Team" ?

I'll wait your updated tarball.

Regards,

> address@hidden writes:
>
> Hi J. Ali Harlow: 
>
> I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
>
> Can you send me the source code to my email (address@hidden)? 
> I wish to review the source code, to catch potential legal issues
> early. 
>
> Regards,
>
>> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
>> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>>
>> J. Ali Harlow <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
>> License: other
>> Other License: Joint GNU LGPL and NetHack General Public License
>>
>> nhproxy must be licensed under the NetHack General Public License so that
>> it is useable by NetHack and its variants. By also releasing it under the
>> LGPL we allow for the possibility of future windowing interfaces to be
>> written under other licenses (including GPL). Since I wrote all the code
>> in nhproxy, there is no problem to relicense it in this manner.
>> Package: NetHack Proxy
>> System name: nhproxy
>> Type: non-GNU
>>
>> Description:
>> nhproxy is a library to provide proxy support for windowing interfaces of
>> NetHack and its variants. Without nhproxy, NetHack et. al. have a
>> reasonably complete abstraction API for windowing interfaces which has
>> been used for a number of years to provide windowing interfaces on a
>> variety of platforms (including Gnome and Gtk+). nhproxy is to NetHack et.
>> al. just another of these interfaces. Windowing interfaces which are
>> written to use nhproxy can be built as self-contained executables which
>> connect to NetHack et. al. either by forking and executing a program on
>> the local computer or via TCP/IP to a server running a version of NetHack
>> et. al. configured with nhproxy.
>>
>> Up to this point, nhproxy has been developed as part of the Slash'EM
>> project. (a NetHack variant). It has now reached the stage that it would
>> be good to unbundle it. This would allow easier integration into other
>> NetHack variants and windowing interfaces which are not part of Slash'EM.
>> It will also allow for the possibility to write windowing interfaces which
>> are covered by a license compatible with LGPL (the current situation is
>> that nhproxy is covered by the NetHack General Public License which is
>> required when used with NetHack et. al. but limiting when used with
>> windowing interfaces).
>>
>> You can browse the current version in Slash'EM CVS starting at:
>>
>> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/slashem/slashem/win/proxy/
>>
>> (there are also some include files in slashem/include).
>>
>> I am currently in the process of unbundling nhproxy and porting to
>> autoconf at which point I plan to release a snapshot. I hope to complete
>> this before Christmas, but would prefer not to wait for this before having
>> the savannah project registration completed if possible. 
>>
>>
>> Other Software Required:
>> nhproxy will not depend on anything. The initial (pre v1.0) snapshorts
>> will have an implicit dependency on Slash'EM. That is, nhproxy will build
>> without Slash'EM but in order to use it windowing interfaces need to know
>> the values of a number of pre-processor tokens that are defined in
>> Slash'EM headers. Removing this dependency will be one of the major tasks
>> in preparing the version 1.0 release.
>>
>
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