Re: RFC: GDL2 differences to EOF / WO4.5.1

[Adam Fedor]

On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 02:36 AM, David Ayers wrote:

> Giulio Cesare Solaroli wrote:
>
> > I have no problem at all to contribute the code to FSF, but there are 
> > some issues that must be resolved:
> > - our frameworks use some of the Omni frameworks; before committing 
> > everything to the FSF this dependency must be removed; this should 
> > not be a huge problem, but must be investigated;
> > - some code snips have been taken from mailing-list messages; I have 
> > asked the original authors an informal permission when we did the 
> > first submission to SourceForge, but I think an further check should 
> > be done before giving the copyright to FSF (all the authors are cited 
> > in the source files);
>
> This is an issue, I believe.  If you can't get the copyright 
> assignment, kill those bits, add a comment about what they did and we 
> can reimplement them.
>
> > - we subclass OCUnit classes so Sente too must contribute its code to 
> > FSF for complete integration.
>
> Eventhough, that would be nice, I don't think this is absolutly 
> necessary for a contribution.  GNUstep depends on other free code that 
> isn't a GNU project.  It might be an issue if we ever wanted to make 
> this testing framework the "official" GNUstep testing framework.
I don't think it's absolutely necessary for it to be a GNU package. 
It's not critical to the USE of  gdl2 (AFAIK, let me know otherwise). 
Just an appropriate GPL-compatible license would be all that is 
necessary. Unless you feel strongly that otherwise, it doesn't matter 
to me.