Follow-up Comment #8, task #16553 (group administration):
Hi again and sorry to keep bothering you. I see that you (inei) do a lot of
work helping a lot of people.
I would like to choose the public platform for this and Savannah would be my
No.1 choice for three reasons:
- best accessibility according to partially-sighted SoX developer Eric Wong
- provides mailing lists, unlike No.2, codeberg
- Highest visibility
and a +/-:
- Getting project approval is more difficult, but this is likely to improve
its quality and legal standing.
No hurry though. The first hard fork release (micro) will be on 18 August
and I can work on it elsewhere as it will not be public until then to avoid
sabotage from mainline. Most of the patches for the micro release are there as
patches in Debian and 47 other non-dependent distros, just not being handled
properly by mainline.
The problem files seem to be:
>> 38 are copyright and "freely distributable for any purpose"
> This permission isn't sufficient for code to be free software;
although
> If a release has one statement that "This program is released under license
> FOO," in a central place, that makes the situation clear for that release.
and I'm starting from the last official release made by Bagwell, sifting the
patches on git.sf.net since then the same as all the other forks and distros'
patches. Also, I assume that "for any purpose" includes relicensing it under
the GPL, and anyone who has "other purposes" can base their work on the last
official release's code.
and
>> 8 have no copyright statement or are "Written by" someone
> the fact that it's a work of the US should ideally be checked
I've checked those files' authorship from the git logs. 2 were first comitted
by Rob Sykes, UK citizen, whose permission I have, 2 by Chris Bagwell the main
author, for 3 I now have Coelho's permission to use them and 1 by Chris
Ausbrooks whose email at the time was @ualr.edu in the US.
Lastly I would appreciate your comments on the idea of boilerplating the GPLv3
at the top of source files with a proviso for the preceding terms where
applicable (like "provided that the above copyright notice and this permission
notice appear in all copies").
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