Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of dawk

[Jaime E . Villate]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:57:48AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Zinx Verituse <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: other
> Other License: Dawk is only available under version 2 of the GNU General 
> Public License.
> Package: dawk

Hi,
I'm sorry that we cannot accept your project because of its restriction to
only version 2 of the GPL. You are not doing anything wrong by restricting to
version 2 only of the GPL, and your software continues to be free
software. However, the FSF doesn't want to accept that license in its hosts
because it would be compatible with GPL v2, but wouldn't be compatible with
the next version. And this is something that the FSF wants to discourage.

Please keep in mind that if you decide to accept Savannah's policy of "GPL V2
or later", if a version 3 comes out nobody in Savannah would go and update
the license information of your project; it would continue to be "GPL V2 or
later" if you wanted it that way and it would not cause any conflicts for
Savannah. And if a user wants to abide by the rules of V2, because he/she finds
it better than V3, they can choose to do that. The copying permission
statement gives them that option:
  "...you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version."

If you decide to accept version 2 or later of the GPL, you can register your
project again. You also have the option of using other GPL-compatible license
from the list of accepted licenses in Savannah.

> I don\'t intend to use any savannah services other than the CVS and Bug
>  tracker at the moment.
The Bug tracking system is not installed yet in Savannah.

> Please do note that I am only offering in under version 2 of the GPL,
> without the option of using any later versions.

Greetings,
Jaime