[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [Savannah-help-public] Access to Savannah thru http?

After discussion and experiments, we came with the solution to bind SSH to port 443 (https). This allows people to connect even from behind a proxy. Thanks for working on this.

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: FSF address change

Would it be possible to notify savannah-hackers-public@gnu.org when the FSF will have its new address? We would like to notify developers at Savannah of this change via a news item, so they can change their GNU GPL notices. Sure, Peter will tell you.

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #323176] [Savannah] PEAR's QuickForm and the PHP license

Please note that PHP uses the Zend engine, which has a different license. Or at least that was true a few years ago. I do not know if it has changed. If this is still true, then it is not enough for the PHP license to be GPL-compatible. The Zend engine license also needs to be GPL compatible in

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #323176] [Savannah] PEAR's QuickForm and the PHP license

>6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following > acknowledgment: > - "This product includes PHP, freely available from > - ". > + "This product includes PHP software, freely available from > +

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: campaign against mpeg codec

We are not _against_ free software for patented formats such as GIF and MPEG2 and MP3. We are against distributing works in those formats, but we don't say you should refuse to play them if you have them. However, free software to do these jobs has met with lawsuit threats. It is best for these t

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re:

The Savannah Hackers are interested to know if it is appropriate to approve projects which depend on non-free dynamic websites I am not sure what you mean by describing a web site as "non-free". Our terms "free" and "non-free" are defined for software, not for web sites. We are working on

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

rms, the weatherbug.com web site provides weather news and information, e.g., you can give it a zip code and get back a weather forecast. I believe the script simply parses the HTML that the form on their web site spits back. I don't see any harm in a program like that.

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Stepping Down of Savannah Maintenance

I hereby step down from my unofficial position of Savannah maintainer. It is most unfortunate to lose your help. Thanks for agreeing to help advise the people who do this work after you. And thanks for doing so much for so long. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Projects for Android in GNU Savannah

r allowing these programs to run on GNU. If so, MAYBE the answer is yes, but not necessarily. They might not work usefully on GNU. If they could run usefully on GNU if GNU is running on a phone or tablet, that makes them ok, even if they would not be useful on a PC. -- Dr Richard Stallman Presi

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Projects for Android in GNU Savannah

Do we have enough personnel and machine capacity on Savannah to handle all the projects that want hosting and DO run on GNU? Magiadni would be more worthy of support if it will condemn the DNI as a form of tyranny. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Projects for Android in GNU Savannah

oblem, so it can't be hosted here. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Projects for Android in GNU Savannah

In that case, I'll add it to Savannah's hosting policy. Please say that we can host packages that run on Replicant if the Savannah maintainers have capacity to handle them. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org w

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Projects for Android in GNU Savannah

Thanks. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Non-GNU projects has been re-enabled on GNU Savannah

practice. Maybe that is true. On the other hand, if some people are confused, they would not tell you. So this isn't evidence that nobody is confused. If it is easy to edit the old news announcement, why NOT do so? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Non-GNU projects has been re-enabled on GNU Savannah

ith this, I found it was possible to > retroactively reject it, causing it to disappear from the list of > savannah news items. That seems like a good solution. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: N

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [Repo-criteria-discuss] Savannah and HTTPS

[[[ 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. ]]] > A couple people have raised concerns about Savannah and whether it meets > crit

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [Repo-criteria-discuss] Savannah and HTTPS

n if they think they're using https > because of the misleading option at the login screen. I don't understand those words. I can only say that the conclusion, "Security requres discontinuing support for HTTP," is an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary proof. I

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [Repo-criteria-discuss] Savannah and HTTPS

, by itself, fix the immediate problem? > For > example, if the login form was loaded over HTTPS, but accidentally posts > to an HTTP link, Please spell out that scenario more clearly; I do not follow you. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Found

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] gnu coding standards

e GCS without your > explicit review and approval. Normally all changes in the GNU standards have to be approved by me, though it would be ok to fix a trivial typo. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Founda

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] gnu coding standards

[[[ 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. ]]] Savannah Hackers, would you please add Alfred? -- Dr Richard Stallman (

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah hosting requirements on documentation license (was: Re: [task #16589] Submission of P2P Social Network Pandora)

ut with many instances already of packages that use the code license for the documentation too, maybe we should decide that that is ok. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Support for Git-backed web pages on Savannah?

patches on the list and getting them perfected many thousands of > lines of changes were committed to the repo and applied to the live > instance rendering those patches invalid. Since the experts like his changes, have we got a plan for updatihg them and merging them? -- Dr Richard S

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Support for Git-backed web pages on Savannah?

busy dealing with it. There is basically nothing they could have done better. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Support for Git-backed web pages on Savannah?

said. We are all working for the same thing. We all sometimes make mistakes, so let's be kind to each other when we point them out. See https://gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah hosting requirements on documentation license

s, is to merge part of one with part of the other. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Support for Git-backed web pages on Savannah?

[[[ 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. ]]] I have written to sysadmin about this. -- Dr Richard Stallman (

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Please drop Bazaar

on the fork. It appears we don't yet have any opinion about the person who made the fork, as a possible maintainer. So we should not rule per out as a possible maintainer until we have a basis to judge. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https:

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Please drop Bazaar

to another hosting site that we find acceptable? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #2110556] Savannah hosting requirements on documentation license

d for Debian, or could be packaged for Debian without any great obstacle? We should do that with each GNU package that seems to be dead. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #2110556] Savannah hosting requirements on documentation license

some other files (we can call them "source files" of the documentation)? If the latter, where are those files, and do they have copyright and license notices? The answers to thoses questions determine what we need to ask for. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance