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

[donorge.org - C. Planken]

> Do you want us to continue reviewing your project? If yes, I will take
> care of it.

Yes please thank you.

Casper Planken


> On Thursday 07 October 2004 21:05, Sylvain Beucler wrote: 
> Hi,
>
> It seems some hacker forgot your project :/ I didn't know it was so
> long ago when I answered your support request.
>
> Do you want us to continue reviewing your project? If yes, I will take
> care of it.
>
> --
> Sylvain
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:47:44AM +0200, donorge.org - C. Planken wrote:
> > Hello Elfyn McBratney,
> >
> > On the GIF issue, I was already aware of this, actually GIF in Dutch
> > means: "poison" and that pretty much sums up my view on the GIF image
> > file format. It was first my understanding that you simply do not want
> > GIF images to be hosted on the web space you make available for projects.
> >
> > However, I can assure you that the Donorge project has no single GIF
> > dependency! The GIF images you came across are old leftovers or part of
> > testing items and are not required by Donorge. But I understand your
> > point of view and have removed the unneeded files and converted the other
> > 2 to PNG (altough we wont need these current samples for long). Please
> > understand that the PNG image file format is the default and prefered
> > only one used with Donorge.
> >
> > To put it simply: all GIF images have been removed/converted, a new tar
> > is available here: http://testing.donorge.org/donorge.tar.gz and PNG is
> > the standard image file format for Donorge. The testing project itself on
> > http://testing.donorge.org now also uses the updated tar.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Casper Planken
> >
> > On Sunday 12 September 2004 00:42, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:56:54AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> > > > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> > > > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Casper Planken <address@hidden> described the package as
> > > > follows: License: gpl
> > > > Other License:
> > > > Package: donorge
> > > > System name: donorge
> > > > Type: non-GNU
> > > >
> > > > Description:
> > > > Donorge is to be a donation webservice aimed at optimizing on-line
> > > > donations, in particular for open source projects. Donorge is coded
> > > > in PHP and relies heavily on Drupal(Drupal is a CMS (Content
> > > > Management System) for websites and also based on the GPL).
> > > > Technically, donorge is a module for Drupal (http://drupal.org).
> > > > Donorge already has a dedicated server for itself. Donorge has been
> > > > developed privately for many months and the first
> > > > "http://testing.donorge.org"; is now on-line. (when finalized will
> > > > move to http://donorge.org) The code for this testing release can be
> > > > found at http://testing.donorge.org/donorge.tar.gz
> > >
> > > Please remove GIF image files from your project and replace them with
> > > an other format (such as PNG or JPEG).
> > >
> > > Because of the patents (Unisys and IBM) covering the LZW compression
> > > algorithm which are used when making GIF files, it's impossible to have
> > > free software to generate proper GIFs.  They also apply to the compress
> > > program.
> > >
> > > For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html.
> > >
> > > > Other Software Required:
> > > > Donorge was submitted last week with a QPL software dependency, this
> > > > dependency has been removed entirely. This means Donorge no longer
> > > > depends on jpgraph which is QPL licensed. The graph drawing code has
> > > > been recoded and now uses optimized code written for donorge itself
> > > > (Donorge values the GPL philosophy). The core dependency is Drupal
> > > > which is GPL licensed. Donorge is coded using PHP only and uses MySQL
> > > > for a database solution.
> > > >
> > > > Other Comments:
> > > > Removed the QPL dependency!
> > >
> > > 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,
> >
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