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

[Guillaume Morin]

Hi Bernd,

Unless I am mistaken, your code does not contain a proper copyright
notice. Therefore from a strictly legal point of view, your project is
not Free Software. Could you add a proper copyright notice (example
follows) at the beginning of every source file please and resubmit your
project when it's done ?

/*
        Copyright (C) year1,year2 Author1, Author2 

    This program is free software; 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.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA


*/

Thanks in advance for your understanding.

>A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
>This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>Bernd Sokolowsky <address@hidden> described the package as
>follows:
>License: gpl
>Other License:
>Package: gwyple
>System name: gwyple
>This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
>
>gwyple is a GUI, implemented in Perl and Perl/TK, for handling
>bugreports. These bugreports usually come in by email, are stored
>away by some helper script called from procmail, and can then be
>handled by gwyple independently from the used bugtracking system.
>
>This can prove useful for users that have to manage great quantities
>of such mails from different sources. A mailreader doesn\'t have
>an understanding about the contents of such mails, and therefore
>has only very limited capabilities for sorting and filtering.
>
>This software was not available to the public until now. It can
>be seen at http://shell.franken.de/~ulmo/gwyple/ .
>
>The current state is that it supports ClearDDTS quite well and
>is fully functional for that. The next steps will be to clean up
>the interface and make it more easily extensible. The framework
>for this is partly in place already. The second supported bugtracking
>system will perhaps be the Debian BTS.




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