[Savannah-register-public] [task #5917] Submission of ThemeX/Westgen Site-Wide Template Engine

[Stephan Peijnik]

Update of task #5917 (project administration):

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             Assigned to:                    None => sp                     

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah. Whilst
evaluating your submission I noticed a few problems which are described
below.


First of all, note that Savannah supports projects of the Free Software
movement, not projects of the Open Source movement.

We are careful about ethical issues and insist on producing software that is
not dependent on proprietary software.

While Open Source as defined by its founders means something pretty close to
Free Software, it's frequently misunderstood.  For more information, please
see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html.


Second thing I noticed is that you are planning to dual-license your project.
I'd like you to read
https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/ProprietaryUseOfFreeSoftware which
contains basic information about this 'issue'. In fact, we'd like you to
release your project under a Free Software License only, due to the ethical
and social problems proprietary software comes with. Would you agree on
licensing your project under the GNU GPL v2 or later only, instead of using a
dual-licensing scheme?


The third thing is that we'd like you to include a (perhaps temporary) URL
pointing to the source code. Alternatively, you can forward the code to me by
email or attach it to this tracker.

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 GNU GPL you must
include a copyright notice and permission-to-copy statements at the beginning
of every  copyrightable file, usually any file more than 10 lines long.  This
is explained in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.  Our review would
help catch potential omissions such as these.

Note that sending code to our repositories _is_ a release, since the code
will then be publicly available through anonymous access.


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web interface following the link below. Do not reply directly, the
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replies.

Regards.

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