[Savannah-register-public] [task #4488] Submission of GNUstep Core Data framework

[Sebastian Wieseler]

Update of task #4488 (project administration):

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             Assigned to:                    None => frank_org              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Hi,
I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

At first about your README:
"The library is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General
Public License (LGPL) v2.1."

Licensing under the "GNU LGPL v2.1 only" is problematic.
Would you agree to license your project under the "GNU LGPL v2.1 or later"?

The reason for this is that when we publish LGPL v3,
it will be important for all LGPL-covered programs to advance to LGPL v3.
If you don't put this in the files now, the only way to port your program to
LGPL 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 LGPL v2.1 or later", we'd be happy to address
them too.


At second, the license notices in the source code say "version 2 of the
License" - is there any special reason you address to version 2 and not 2.1?

There is no problem for us because of the addition "or any later version",
it's only a question.


At third, I've seen that you assign your copyright to the FSF, right? Did you
sign copyright-assignment-papers?
Please have a look at
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html#Copyright-Papers



And last, in order to release your documentation properly and unambiguously
under the FDL (we prefer this), please place copyright notices and
permission-to-copy statements after the title page of each work.

In addition, if you haven't already, please add a copy of the FDL
(available from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html in various formats)
as a section of your works , and as plain text in a file named 'COPYING'
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt).

For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html#SEC4

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto.html also covers additional points,
including a smaller notice that you can use in auxiliary files.


Look forward to your updated tarball.
Regards,




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