> "A different case is when the program talks across a network with
> a server running on another machine, and the server is proprietary or
> has an unknown license; unless the two pieces of software make a
> single program (for example because they exchange complex data
> structur
Hi Alfred
Right. Replace "ecosystem" with 'More and more of the software hosted at
GNU Savannah'.
It seems bad enough to me, in cases when the server's latest version is
documented by nobody and is proprietary. Then it is only its older revisions
that were successfully reverse engineered and "d
Hi Alfred
Right. Replace "ecosystem" with 'More and more of the software hosted at
GNU Savannah'.
It seems bad enough to me, in cases when the server's latest version is
documented by nobody and is proprietary. Then it is only its older revisions
that were successfully rever
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Christopher Dimech
General Administrator - Naiad Informatics - GNU Project (Geocomputation)
- Geophysical Simulation
- Geological Subsurface Mapping
- Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation
- Natural Resource Exploration and Production
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> Sent: Tuesd
> How is that different from a latest version that is not documented,
> and free software? After all, you don't need to provide the source
> code for the free software server program.
Use the Gnu Affero GPL and the free software server program must be
provided for users of the serv
So I think the Savannah hosting rules need to be modified
to say that the criterion is about nonfree software to be run
on the user's own computers, and that it does not apply to
communication with services run by other people or entities.
Would someone like to work on a draft of th
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 5:53 PM
> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt"
> To: "Christopher Dimech"
> Cc: svetl...@members.fsf.org, savannah-hackers@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Dependence on nonfree software
>
>> How is that different from a latest version that is not documented,
>> and free s
For software intended to run on servers, the Gnu Affero GPL must be a
requirement.
Otherwise it will break Freedom 1.
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Christopher Dimech
General Administrator - Naiad Informatics - GNU Project (Geocomputation)
- Geophysical Simulation
- Geological Subsurface Mapping
- Disast
For example, free software client to Google Docs (imagine for a moment they
have an API) may be submitted to GNU Savannah. Would it become approved as free
software at GNU Savannah? To my knowledge, Google Docs clearly is classified as
"Service as Software Substitute".
> For example, free software client to Google Docs (imagine for a moment they
> have an API) may be submitted to GNU Savannah. Would it become approved as
> free
> software at GNU Savannah? To my knowledge, Google Docs clearly is classified
> as
> "Service as Software Substitute".
Th
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 11:53 PM
> From: "Andrea G. Monaco"
> To: savannah-hackers@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Dependence on nonfree software
>
>
> > For example, free software client to Google Docs (imagine for a moment they
> > have an API) may be submitted to GNU Savannah. Would it
Svetlana Tkachenko writes:
> For example, free software client to Google Docs (imagine for a moment they
> have an API) may be submitted to GNU Savannah. Would it become approved as
> free software at GNU Savannah? To my knowledge, Google Docs clearly is
> classified as "Service as Software
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> From reading the requirements, I think it is already clear that
> requirement i
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> For software intended to run on servers, the Gnu Affero GPL must be a
requiremen
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