[Savannah-hackers-public] License for non-functional data in project submissions

2013-03-29 Thread Felipe Lopez
Hi, I'd like to know if the guidelines for distributing non-functional data as part of free software distributions[1] apply as well to projects submitted to Savannah for approval. Do projects have to follow those guidelines to be compliant? Regards, [1]: http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-d

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] (no subject)

2013-03-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Ankith S wrote: >I have found some c source code of UNIX commands.page is > coreutils.git - GNU coreutils.htm. And is it possible to compile > those codes using gcc compiler??if possible please guide me how to > compile?? You have reached the mailing list for people who hack on Savannah.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] A wasteland of a wiki

2013-03-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: > We can't copy from the old wiki. That's the whole problem (well, the > biggest part of it, anyway). At least I don't know how. As I read that suggestion I think perhaps the suggestion was to bring up the current web page and then cut-n-paste from it into a new location. All

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] A wasteland of a wiki

2013-03-29 Thread Karl Berry
bring up the current web page and then cut-n-paste from it into a new location. Yes, that's what I thought the idea was too, and one I have brought up myself, but as far as I can see it is currently unimplementable (no matter how much brute force is available): 1) we don't know what the cu

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] License for non-functional data in project submissions

2013-03-29 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Felipe, http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.en.html#non-functional-data Good question. In general the idea, as I've understood it, is that anything on Savannah should be includable in a free (or GNU) distro. Since that's the stated policy for free distros, I do

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] License for non-functional data in project submissions

2013-03-29 Thread Felipe Lopez
2013/3/29 Karl Berry > Hi Felipe, > > > http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.en.html#non-functional-data > > Good question. In general the idea, as I've understood it, is that > anything on Savannah should be includable in a free (or GNU) distro. > Since that's the stat

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] License for non-functional data in project submissions

2013-03-29 Thread Felipe Lopez
2013/3/29 Karl Berry > without copyright and license notices, > > They need to have a copyright and license that explicitly > allows (at least) unlimited verbatim copying for both commercial and > non-commercial purposes. > > and two of them are university logos. > > Universities typicall

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] License for non-functional data in project submissions

2013-03-29 Thread Karl Berry
without copyright and license notices, They need to have a copyright and license that explicitly allows (at least) unlimited verbatim copying for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. and two of them are university logos. Universities typically refuse to allow any use of their lo