Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of GNU Herds management application - savannah.nongnu.org

[Alaska Subedi]

Hi,

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

address@hidden writes:
 > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Davi Leal <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: We will move it to the Affero GPL license.
 > Package: GNU Herds management application
 > System name: gnuherds-app
 > Type: non-GNU
 > 
 > Description:
 > Technical description of the web application to the management of GNU Herds, 
 > hopefully The Free Software Association;
 >   The GNU Herds aims shall be to encourage the professional development of 
 > Free Software contributors. Reference: http://www.gnuherds.org/Charter.php
 > 
 > 
 > This web application,
 > 
 >   is a Software Project
 > 
 >   uses the GNU General Public License V2 or later, adding the below 
 > paragraph, awaiting the GPL V3 which we hope will solve the issue with web 
 > applications. We have been told at #gnu that we can already use the Affero 
 > GPL however, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html , to cover use of 
 > software over a computer network. We think it is good idea to move to Affero 
 > GPL license.
 > 
 > 
 > *** ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***
 > Additionally to the spcified by the GPL license, a link have to be supplied 
 > at the bottom of the home page of the web site, which this software product 
 > define, offering the gzip compressed tar ball of the web site source, being 
 > it able to be downloaded from any machine connected to the internet.
 > *** ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***  ***
 > 
 > 
 >   URL of the web application (at development state):
 >       http://www.gnuherds.org
 > 
 >   URL to source code download:
 >       http://www.gnuherds.org/gnuherds.tar.gz
 >       Reference: See the bottom of the home page
 >                  of http://www.gnuherds.org
 >       Note: As you can see, it uses just PNG and JPG images.
 > 
 > Other Software Required:
 > 
 > 
 > Other Comments:
 > RMS knows about this project. We will send he a little progress report and 
 > they will review our activities and tell us what, if anything, needs to be 
 > changed. Reference: http://www.gnuherds.org/Timeline.php
 > 
 > We have been allowed to use the GNU word as part of the GNU Herds project 
 > name. However, by the moment, I am going to try to register this web 
 > application as non-gnu. If it is required, it could be moved to GNU later.
 > 
 > Note that the web application is hosted in our own server Hopefully, the 1.0 
 > version of this web application will be hosted at some of the FSF servers, 
 > using its HTTP and PostgreSQL/MySQL services. It has not been discussed yet 
 > with the FSF.
 > 
 > The motivation to migrate the CVS service to Savannah is to get the 
 > advantages of its development and management tools and the community of more 
 > than 28,000 registered Free Software contributors. We are looking for ways 
 > to go on with this project.
 > 
 > 
 > 

Could you change the licence to Affero GPL now? This will solve the
license issue easily.

Also, the files in test/ directory do not have copyright license. All
files larger than 10 lines should have copyright and license notices.

Please address this issue and I will approve your project for
inclusion in Savannah.

Regards,

Alaska Subedi