Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Wireless Node Database

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Unless I'm mistaken the current distribution does not contain copyright
and licenses notices in the files. Could you please fix this and submit your
project again when it's done ? Without a copyright and license notice, the
license status of each file is unclear. I also note that there are a lot
of data files. Are these files under the GNU GPL too ? If yes, who is the
copyright holder ? 

        Thanks in advance,

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address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Adam Shand <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: Wireless Node Database
 > System name: wndb
 > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > This is a second attempt to register this project because the first time 
 > around it wasn\'t clear that I needed to provide a URL to where someone 
 > could download the source.
 > 
 > The Community Network Node Database is a web based application to help 
 > wireless community networks (such as Personal Telco and NYC Wireless) keep 
 > track of their nodes.  It is currently in early stages of developement 
 > (it\'s been live and working for 6 months though on our site) and getting it 
 > online where more people can participate in it\'s developement is the next 
 > crucial step to improving it. It is a mod_perl / mason frontend to MapServer 
 > and MapBlast\'s online maps.  We are hoping to move it to include other 
 > mapping backends (such as the US Census TIGER data and true GIS data).  We 
 > also hope it will grow to include monitoring facilities of the nodes and can 
 > be used as a central coordination place for community  networks.
 > 
 > It already exists and you can see it at http://maps.personatelco.net/.  You 
 > can download the source at 
 > http://www.personaltelco.net/download/wndb-0.1.tar.bz
 > 

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