Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Peer Agent - savannah.nongnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

We did not get a response from you, so we deleted your project from
the pending queue.

If you would still like to have your project hosted at Savannah,
please register it again.

The re-registration URL found in our acknowledgment of your earlier
registration will direct you to the proper location where you can
re-register your project.

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 04:09:04AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:24:50AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > 
> > Bob Fischer <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > License: lgpl
> > Other License: 
> > Package: Peer Agent
> > System name: peeragent
> > Type: non-GNU
> > 
> > Description:
> > Peer agents are executable object-oriented email components exchanged 
> > between
> > users as a basis of communication for distributed applications. They are
> > strongly typed and are dispatched to user-installable trusted handlers based
> > on their type. The type mechanism provides the flexible trust management
> > needed to implement secure distributed applications over store-and-forward
> > networks. Peer agents address a number of contemporary problems in 
> > distributed
> > systems. They allow users with low-grade or intermittent Internet access to
> > provide and consume interactive services that typically requrie a web server
> > hosted by a trusted third party. By eliminating the need for the trusted 
> > third
> > party, privacy is enhanced. Peer agents also allow an initiator to adopt new
> > standards without requiring prior agreement with others involved in the
> > communication. 
> 
> Please reply and include an (temporary) URL pointing to the source code.
> The description you gave when registering will not be read by the general
> public. If you are still concerned with privacy, however, you can forward the
> code to me by email (address@hidden).
> 
> We wish to review your source code, even if it is not functional, to catch
> potential legal issues early.  
> 
> For example, to release your program properly under the GPL you must include
> a copyright notice and permission-to-copy statements at the beginning of
> every file of source code.  This is explained in
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.  Our review would help catch
> potential omissions such as these.
> 
> > The current status of the software is pre-alpha.  Code exists but has not 
> > yet
> > been distributed.  Possible Free Software issues include:
> >
> >  1. This system is written in Java, including Swing.  I have every reason to
> > believe it will work with Kaffee/Classpath when that system's Swing
> > implementation is finished.  This kind of work, due to the need for 
> > architecture
> > independence and mobile code, must be done in a sandboxed bytecode 
> > environment.
> > Unfortunately, the Kaffee website claims that Kaffee does not yet provide 
> > the
> > bytecode verification necessary to ensure safety with mobile code.  
> > Hopefully,
> > this will change in the future.  Mono would be the other possible base 
> > system,
> > but Mono is still young and this is already written in Java.
> 
> You must determine whether your project can run on a Free Software Java suite
> (see http://www.gnu.org/software/java/ for more information).  
> 
> We recommend you to test your project against GCJ+Classpath, and ensure that
> your Java code runs on this Free Software Java suite.  If it does not run with
> a free Java suite, we cannot host your project, as it would have non-free
> dependencies.
> 
> GCJ is the GNU Compiler for Java, part of the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection).
> The Classpath project aims to develop a free and portable implementation of
> the Java API (the classes in the 'java' package).  More information at
> http://gcc.gnu.org and http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/.
> 
> Please provide us with more information about this point.
> 
> >  2. A variety of non-free libraries are used at this point, all of which 
> > can be
> > replaced by free libraries:
> >    a) JavaMail --> GNU's JavaMail (or Risotto, in its upcoming release which
> > should be GPL-compatible).
> >    b) BCEL --> I have a "roll your own" thing that works well enough.
> 
> How and where will you make this BCEL replacement available?  Will it be
> distributed with peeragent?
> 
> If you are willing to make the changes mentioned above, please provide
> us with an URL to an updated tarball of your project.  Upon review, we
> will reconsider your project for inclusion in Savannah.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Elfyn McBratney
> beu on irc.freenode.net/savannah.[non]gnu.org
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Sylvain