Re: [savannah-help-public] Proper license notices

2016-05-26 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > We recommend GPLv3-or-later; in any case, we require the "or any later > > ve

Re: [savannah-help-public] Proper license notices

2016-05-25 Thread Karl Berry
rms> so it is important to say, "including the GNU GPL, GNU AGPL and GNU LGPL" ... However, we can exclude the versioned licenses which have automatic upgrade, such as the CC licenses. Ok, here's another attempt: > We recommend GPLv3-or-later; in any case, we require the "or any late

Re: [savannah-help-public] Proper license notices

2016-05-24 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > GPLv3-or-later is recommended; the "or any later version" > formulation is

Re: [savannah-help-public] Proper license notices

2016-05-23 Thread Karl Berry
Is this wording for the Savannah requirements page ok? GPLv3-or-later is recommended; the "or any later version" formulation is required for versioned licenses. Since some licenses don't have explicit versions, it seems it has to be conditional somehow ... -karl

Re: [savannah-help-public] Proper license notices

2016-05-23 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > This is mentioned on this page: > http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToGetY

Re: [savannah-help-public] Proper license notices

2016-05-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: [...] > It seems to me that this has a flaw: maybe it should require that > licensing be compatible either with GPL 3-or-later or with AGPL > 3-or-later. [...] > Are there any packages which are licenses under GPL 2 only > or GPL 3

Re: [savannah-help-public] Proper license notices

2016-05-22 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Thanks. In http://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php I see this text: F

Re: [savannah-help-public] Proper license notices

2016-05-21 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Thanks. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.or

Re: [savannah-help-public] Proper license notices

2016-05-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > Do we do anything to make sure there are proper license notices in > the source files of the programs on Savannah? Yes. Before each project is approved, we review the submitted files and ensure they adhere to the savannah hosting

[savannah-help-public] Proper license notices

2016-05-17 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Do we do anything to make sure there are proper license notices in the source files o