Hi, I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
Like I said in my previous mail: To release your project under the GPL, you should put copyright notices and copying permission statements at the beginning of every source-code file, and include a copy of the plain text version of the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt). Put it in a file named COPYING. Please follow the advice of http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html. The GPL FAQ explain the reason behind these recommendations. For example, there is an entry explaining why the GPL requires including a copy of the GPL with every copy of the program: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyMustIInclude This means: The copying permission statement should come right after the copyright notices. For a one-file program, the statement (for the GPL) should look like this: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA For programs that are more than one file, it is better to replace "this program" with the name of the program, and begin the statement with a line saying "This file is part of NAME". For instance, This file is part of Foobar. Foobar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Foobar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Foobar; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Please provide me a updated tarball. Rudy On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 05:49:39PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org > This mail was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Zonecheck Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> described the package as follows: > License: other > Other License: ZoneCheck is copyright AFNIC, 2003. It is written and maintained by > Stephane D\'Alu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. You can contact AFNIC at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > or for technical questions/patches about this software at > the following address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > The Ruby DNS library (in the lib/ directory) is licenced like Ruby > (either GPL or the Ruby licence, see > <URL:http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt> for details). > > ZoneCheck terms of use and distribution: > > You can use, modify and distribute ZoneCheck according to the GPL v2 > (GNU General Public License) <URL:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, > a copy has been made available in the file \'GPL\'. > To summarize (a lot!), it means you can use ZoneCheck freely (but not > to link it with software which is not GPL-compatible), you can have > the source code, you can distribute it freely (even after modifications) > BUT you cannot deny these freedoms to the people who receive it: for > instance, you must provide them with the source code. > > Alternatively, if you want to use or distribute a version of ZoneCheck > in a way which is not compatible with the GPL you *must* get an > agreement from AFNIC which will give you the right to use the > following terms. The license is therefore *not* a disjunctive > license. To use the \"MIT/X11\"-like license hereafter, you need a > personal agreement with AFNIC. > > ----------- Terms after relicencing, for the licencee only ---- > > Permission is hereby granted, to <<the licencee>> obtaining a copy of > this software and associated documentation files (the \"Software\"), to > deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation > the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, > sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit > individuals or organizations to whom the Software is furnished to do > so, subject to the following conditions: > > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be > included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. > > > THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED \"AS IS\", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, > EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF > MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND > NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE > LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION > OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION > WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. > > -- WARNING ---------------------------------------------------- > > Patch submitters are therefore informed that, for the patches to be > included, you must agree on this possible relicensing. > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > References that you may find interesting: > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html > http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=778&group_id=1 > > Package: ZoneCheck > System name: zonecheck > Type: non-GNU > > Description: > The DNS is a critical resource that is needed by every network application, so it > is important to ensure that a zone or domain name is correctly configured in the > DNS, otherwise you could see appearing a dramatical increase in the latency of your > application up to the return of unexpected/inconsistant results. > > This is to help solving this misconfiguration or inconsistencies that ZoneCheck has > been designed, it will allow you to check your domain name and generate a detailled > report to help you fixing the eventual problems. > > main page: > http://zonecheck.nic.fr/ > > download: > http://zonecheck.nic.fr/download/v2/ > > Other Software Required: > ruby, gtk2, iconv > > > Other Comments: > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Savannah-hackers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web page http:/www.webworm.org GNU/Linux for schools http://www.nongnu.org/glms Savannah hacker http://savannah.gnu.org _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
