Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject "GPLv2 only" projects

2006-03-29 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:08:42 +0100 MJ Ray wrote: > Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:28:03 + MJ Ray wrote: > > > Long term, hosting it yourself under a distributed RCS and using > > > something like DOAP to keep project metadata seems the best bet. > > > If others

Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject "GPLv2 only" projects

2006-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:28:03 + MJ Ray wrote: > > Long term, hosting it yourself under a distributed RCS and using > > something like DOAP to keep project metadata seems the best bet. If > > others would like to help document the tools and methods, please le

Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject "GPLv2 only" projects

2006-03-24 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:22:32 +0100 Florent Bayle wrote: > Le Vendredi 24 Mars 2006 01:07, Francesco Poli a écrit : > [...] > > On the other hand, TuxFamily seems rather interesting. > > One problem that _I_ have with TuxFamily is that almost all the web > > site texts are in French only: I speak I

Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject "GPLv2 only" projects

2006-03-24 Thread Florent Bayle
Le Vendredi 24 Mars 2006 01:07, Francesco Poli a écrit : [...] > On the other hand, TuxFamily seems rather interesting. > One problem that _I_ have with TuxFamily is that almost all the web site > texts are in French only: I speak Italian and English, but not quite > French (I can manage to underst

Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject "GPLv2 only" projects

2006-03-23 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:38:48 +0100 Florent Bayle wrote: > Le Mercredi 22 Mars 2006 01:13, Francesco Poli a écrit : > [...] > > It seems that I must find another place to have my project hosted... > > > > Sourceforge provides services by running proprietary tools: I don't > > want to get used to so

Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject "GPLv2 only" projects

2006-03-23 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:28:03 + MJ Ray wrote: > Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Quote: "We cannot accept GPLv2 only". > > That's dumb. Of course they *can*. They just don't want to. > So, Savannah rejects free software now, just because some developers > don't want to let people weld ad

Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject "GPLv2 only" projects

2006-03-22 Thread MJ Ray
Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Quote: "We cannot accept GPLv2 only". That's dumb. Of course they *can*. They just don't want to. So, Savannah rejects free software now, just because some developers don't want to let people weld adverts into their manuals? Shame. [...] > Other similar projec

Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject "GPLv2 only" projects

2006-03-21 Thread Jérôme Marant
Florent Bayle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Mercredi 22 Mars 2006 01:13, Francesco Poli a écrit : > [...] >> It seems that I must find another place to have my project hosted... >> >> Sourceforge provides services by running proprietary tools: I don't want >> to get used to something that is no

Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject "GPLv2 only" projects

2006-03-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Francesco Poli wrote: > it seems that Savannah won't accept a GPL'd project, if the author > wants to release under GPLv2 only (that is, without dual-licensing > under "any later version" of the GNU GPL). > > For the details about a real case (mine!), interested readers can di

Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject "GPLv2 only" projects

2006-03-21 Thread Florent Bayle
Le Mercredi 22 Mars 2006 01:13, Francesco Poli a écrit : [...] > It seems that I must find another place to have my project hosted... > > Sourceforge provides services by running proprietary tools: I don't want > to get used to something that is non-free (and could even suddenly > become only avail