[task #16584] Submission of StoneValley

[John Cage]

Follow-up Comment #5, task #16584 (group administration):

I am sorry to bring inconvenience to you.
At last I add LGPLv3 and copyright notice to .c and .h files and I rewrote
README file.
Please evaluate the file in the attachment of comment #4.
If that were not OK, I would revise the project to conform guidelines
further.


[comment #3 comment #3:]
> [comment #2 comment #2:]
> > I altered NOTICE file in the main directory and write:
> > The whole project is published under <Public Domain license>.
> 
> [//www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PublicDomain Public domain isn't a
license], public domain means that the material is not copyrighted.
> 
> > It means that the following files are published with Public Domain
license: 
> > ./NOTICE
> 
> NOTICE is a text file, its usage conditions should be written in it, so it
doesn't belong in that list.
> 
> > And at the same time, I have already wrote in the README file of main
directory about this(Line 10):
> 
> Such statements [//www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html#why-license-notices
make the situation clear for that particular release]. However, programmers
often copy source files from one free program into another. If a source file
contains no statement about what its license is, then moving it into another
context eliminates all trace of that point. This invites confusion and error.
> 
> > Each program file in ./src/ has a header about:
> 
> What we are discussing is legal formalities. From the legal point of view,
there is no distinction between 'program' files and other copyrightable
material.  If people redistribute a tarball containing a file without a
license, they technically infringe copyright no matter what that file does.
> 
> > The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of
> > a legal notice, here is a blessing:
> 
> By the way, this wording is confusing.  If the blessing could be considered
the terms of usage, StoneValley would qualify as proprietary.
> 
> > Please check this site for additional information of git repositories:
https://github.com/coshcage/StoneValley
> 
> I'd rather avoid visiting GitHub.  Many its functions rely on proprietary
JavaScript.


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