Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of eMonkey

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,


        In order to clarify the general policy of Savannah regarding 
dependencies to non free software, we are going to add the following
(probably modified a bit) to the Services & Requirements.

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        No dependencies to non free software

        Your software may not depend on non free software. In order to be
available to people who cannot use non free software, it has to be fully 
usable with the existing Free Software operating systems and programs.
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        Thank you for researching the possibility to run your software
using Free Software. From the text you sent it's not clear to me if
you're commited to this goal ?

        I know that when using Java it is a burden to care about the
availability of a Free Software implementation. Since most of them are
not very advanced, it also requires the software to give up some
funtionalities in exchange for freedom. People are often frustrated 
by these limitations.

        Could you please submit your project again when you're decided
about the ability of your project to run on a Free Software Java
implementation ? 

        Thanks in advance,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Sven Herzberg <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: eMonkey
 > System name: emonkey
 > This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > eMonkey will be a GNOME/GTK GUI for the edonkey file-sharing
 > client, which is only available (for linux) as a
 > console-client. The GUI will connect to the so-called
 > \'client-core\' via TCP. Then it\'s possible to use the edonkey
 > file-sharing system in a user-friendly way.
 > 
 > eMonkey will be written in JAVA using the GTK2.0-bindings from
 > java-gnome/java-gtk (http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net) in the
 > version of 0.8.x (which is not available at present). It is planned
 > to run on a free JAVA implementation but it\'s not decided yet,
 > whether this project delivers java-bytecode usuable by kaffe
 > (www.kaffe.org) or it delivers native \'machine-code\' made by the
 > free gcj since version 3.0 (http://gcc.gnu.org).
 > 
 > There is no source available yet, as the java-bindings and the
 > GTK2.0 libs are still developed.
 > 

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