Is this correct?
Yes.
See also LicensingRequirements in the wiki for the general rules.
I feel I must note that Savannah is actually stricter here than the
"free distro" rules
(http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html),
which would allow verbatim copying licenses li
Hello Karl and all,
Another licensing question for you.
Regarding license of data files which not source code (such as
wav/png/jpg/etc.):
I assume these are acceptable for hosting on GNU Savanna:
Creative-Commons (CC BY) any version
Creative-Commons Share Alike (CC BY-SA) any version
And th
Obviously not a proper form, but based on previous discussion,
I would guess this is still acceptable for hosting on Savannah ?
Just want to confirm.
Confirmed -- both that it's not a proper form, and that it's nonetheless
acceptable.
BTW, they also mean "its" rather than "it's".
tha
Hello Karl and all,
One more license question for a project under evaluation:
In this project, all source code files contains a variation of this text:
===
Copyright 2012-2014 by it's authors.
This file may be used under the terms of the GNU General Public
License version 3.0 as published by
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Is the "(C)" part in "Copyright (C) 2014" required, highly-recommend, or
optional ? My regex currently requires '\([Cc]\)' .
Purely optional. The regex should not accept but not require it.
This is one of the comments I needed to make on your original msg.
(I've submitted a chan
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Is it enough to write in a file:
"/* This file is part of PACKAGE and is under GPL see licence.txt */"
No other copyright or license information listed.
Assuming that licence.txt exists, I would flag this and
recommend using the standard wording -- but not let it delay acc
Few more cases, for your consideration:
On 08/17/2014 03:05 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
Hello,
A few nit-picking questions regarding evaluation of copyright and license
syntax in submitted projects.
This relates to few projects I'm evaluating, especially:
https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?1
Hello,
A few nit-picking questions regarding evaluation of copyright and license
syntax in submitted projects.
This relates to few projects I'm evaluating, especially:
https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?13269
But also to the semi-automated evaluation script I've sent earlier.
All these is
