Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of craesh's Metronom - savannah.gnu.org

[Xavier Nicolovici]

Hi,
I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

On Wednesday 11 August 2004 03:57 pm, Sacher Khoudari 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> > This mail was sent to address@hidden 
> > <http://lists.gnu.org/spam.html>, address@hidden 
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> >
> >
> > Sacher Khoudari <address@hidden 
> > <http://lists.gnu.org/spam.html>> described the package as follows:
> > License: gpl
> > Other License: Package: craesh's Metronom
> > System name: cetronom
> > Type: GNU

Your project is not yet part of the GNU project, so we cannot
accept its current type GNU. Please set it as non-GNU.

> > Description:
> > First of all, I apologize for my bad english :)
> >
> >
> > Cetronom should be a simple, but flexible metronom, programed for 
> > Alsa and GTK.
> >
> > There are various sequencers which provide a metronome (like 
> > Rosegarden), but you can't run these metronomes by themselves if you 
> > just want to conenct your keyboard to your MIDI-port and play 
> > something (e.g. though Fluidsynth). I've just found one metronome 
> > (outside a bigger aplication), but it was programed for Kylix, and 
> > you need extra libraries for it to run. So I decided to program a 
> > metronome by myself, and I would like to make it avialable for other 
> > people.
> >
> >
> > You can download a almost-working version from this URL:
> >
> > http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~skhoudar/cetronom.tar.bz2 
> > <http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/%7Eskhoudar/cetronom.tar.bz2>

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> > There are some Alsa-issues pending, I still have to find out how to 
> > make it send MIDI-events to a synth-device, and is some coding-work 
> > to do, but I'm sure I'll get it to work in a few days (actually, i 
> > just spent this weekend on it).
> >
> > Other Software Required:
> > Alsa (I'm running Alsa 1.0.4 and Kernel 2.6.4)
> > GTK 2, GLib 2
> >
> > Other Comments:
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
> >
> > .

Apart from that, your not clear about your understanding of the Free 
Softwares.
You're willing at making your software available to others, but Free 
Software
is not only that, it's a matter of "the user's freedom to run, copy, 
distribute, study change
and improve your software".

Note that Savannah supports projects of the Free Software
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While Open Source as defined by its founders means something pretty
close to Free Software, it's frequently misunderstood.
For more information, read
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html

If you are willing to make the change mentioned above, please register
your project once more with the changes mentioned above, and provide us
with an URL to an updated tarball of your project. Upon review, we will
reconsider your project for inclusion in Savannah.

Regards,

Xavier Nicolovici