Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of DTD->C parser generator

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,

I'm sorry that we cannot accept your project because of its restriction to
only version 2 of the GPL. You are not doing anything wrong by restricting to
version 2 only of the GPL, and your software continues to be free
software. However, the FSF doesn't want to accept that license in its hosts
because it would be compatible with GPL v2, but wouldn't be compatible with
the next version. And this is something that the FSF wants to discourage.

Please keep in mind that if you decide to accept Savannah's policy of "GPL V2
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from the list of accepted licenses in Savannah.

Regards,
Jaime

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:07:06PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> guillaume pernot <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: other
> Other License: GNU General Public License V2
> Package: DTD->C parser generator
> System name: dtdtc
> This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> libdtdtc is a helper library to ease the developement of
> DTD-conforming XML parsers in C.
> dtdtc is the companion program that build static parser from DTD.
> Generated parsers may be combined to handle a full set of DTDs.
> 
> Main goal is to provide client application a tree of objects (as C 
> structures), that guarantees DTD compliance, still optimizing storage space 
> and access time.
> 
> Features: 
> stream parsing with on the fly validation;
> namespace handling;
> enumeration handling by enum type;
> builtin DTDs for common namespaces;
> free;
> 
> It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.