Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of LAN message system - savannah.nongnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Even though your project is Free Software it can not be hosted here.
We only host projects that can run primarily on a free operating
system (such as Debian GNU/Linux).

We have adopted this policy because now that completely free operating
systems exist, we do not want to encourage users of those systems to
start using proprietary operating systems so that they can use your
program.

If you are willing to maintain a version for free operating systems,
which work as well as or better than other ports, you can
then provide versions for nonfree systems as well.  The idea is that at
no point should only-free users be at a disadvantage compared to users of
proprietary software.

Your project should always work equally well in free systems as in any
other version you provide; if you have some modules for nonfree
systems, you can delay their release until you have released the free
operating system version.

If you accept this commitment then please register your project again
and it should be approved in Savannah.

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain


On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:27:51AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> Two tarballs are attached: GNU/linux version and win32 version.
> 
> Maarten
> 
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:37:44PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
> > 
> > Can you please send me a tarball? I do not have the patience nor the
> > time to grab each file individually from the server ;)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Sylvain
> > 
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:34:53AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> > > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> > > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Maarten Deprez <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > > License: gpl
> > > Other License: 
> > > Package: LAN message system
> > > System name: message
> > > Type: non-GNU
> > > 
> > > Description:
> > > This package consists of two programs: send and receive. They are used to 
> > > send and receive simple messages over a LAN (or other network) in UDP 
> > > packets, so that broadcasting or multicasting is possible.
> > > 
> > > "send" sends a message to all ip addresses given on the command line. The 
> > > message is read from stdin.
> > > "receive" listens for incoming messages for the ip address of the 
> > > computer it runs on, or for one of the multicast groups (given on the 
> > > command line). When it receives a message, it runs a script, piping the 
> > > message text to he stdin. That script should then takes some action, e.g. 
> > > writing it on the console, or showing a message box.
> > > 
> > > These programs, and windows version, can be downloaded from 
> > > http://deprez-aerts.dyndns.org/~maarten/ (look in the message and 
> > > message-win32 directories), when our home server is on (during the day in 
> > > Belgium).