[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Epeios JAVA frontend - savannah.gnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

"Claude SIMON" <address@hidden> said:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mathieu Roy" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:05 AM
> Subject: Re: submission of Epeios JAVA frontend - savannah.gnu.org
> 
> > address@hidden said:
> >
> > > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> > > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > >
> > > Claude SIMON <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > > License: gpl
> > > Other License:
> > > Package: Epeios JAVA frontend
> > > System name: ejava
> > > Type: 2
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > 1) This apply to all epeios* projects registrations:
> >
> > In order to release your project under the GPL you
> > should write copyright notice and copying conditions
> > at the beginning of every source code file, and
> > include a copy of the plain text version of the GPL
> > (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt copy it, for
> > instance, into a file named COPYING).
> 
> This is already done for the libraries released on sourceforge (the
> 'COPYING' file is named 'License') ! So, what is the problem ?

I looked at some your CVS trees on SF.net, and was sometimes unable to
find licensing information. Note that it's important to add copyright
+ licensing notice in each files, since it's free software.


> 
> > > Description: Implementation, in JAVA, of the frontend part from
> > > the Epeios protocol (http://epeios.org/ebkd/).  Part of the
> > > Epeios project (http://epeios.org/)
> >
> > 2) This apply to this particular one:
> >
> >
> > The key question here is to figure out if your project
> > can run on a Free Software Java suite
> > (see http://www.gnu.org/software/java/ for more
> > informations). Could you give us explanations about
> > this?
> >
> 
> Althought the Epeios JAVA libraries were written under Windows, this was
> done using the Sun JDK (and an old one, the 1.1.8), so I think this
> libraries should also work with any Free Software JDK on any OS. And JAVA is
> supposed to be portable, isn't it ? So, I don't see what the problem is ...

JAVA is supposed to be portable. But there aren't free implementations for
everything. And on Savannah we choose to host only softwares that are
software that can run without using proprietary softwares.

Anyway, there are free implementations for java until Sun JVM 1.3. So
your software should work. And, so, there's no problem.

I wasnt pointing problems but potential problems. We want to make sure
there's no problem before approving a registration on savannah, that's
why we ask you to add more informations.

Now you have to resubmit your projects, and adding license information
where it lacks. 

Regards,

-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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