Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Carbone Ruby VM

[Guillaume Morin]

Dans un message du 23 jan à 20:57, address@hidden écrivait :
>
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> markus liedl <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: There will be a C header File under LGPL to allow compilation 
> of closed-source modules. This is not intended for VM functionality, but only 
> to communicate with external and so maybe non-free software.
> 
> Also, there is a lgram-parser in my VM
> 
> ( 
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/~knu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/lib/metaruby/doc/LGram.txt?rev=1.6&content-type=text/plain
>  )
> 
> that is currently the format of parsed Ruby code but has a much bigger target 
> scope. It should be under LGPL.
> 
> Package: Carbone Ruby VM
> System name: carbone
> This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> The goal of my project is to develop a performant virtual machine for
> the Ruby language ( http://www.ruby-lang.org ) and a compiler to it\'s
> internal format. Also, core parts of Ruby\'s runtime library will be
> necessary.
> 
> The current state is that some primitive operations (sending simple
> messages, defining methods) are working and that it is between 5 and
> 24 times faster then the official interpreter.
> 
> I want it to become compatible to the official Ruby interpreter.
> 
> I\'m using vmgen which is part of GNU Forth, which by itself produces C
> code that depends on GCC. My project depends on that.
> 
> I\'ve started translating the official Ruby parser (written in C) into
> Ruby code itself. It parses to a set of specified Nodes.
> ( http://www.ruby-lang.org/~knu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/lib/metaruby/ )
> 
> I want start to develop this project in public to
> 
> (1) find other interested people and have a place for source code
>     exchange and communication
> (2) (maybe) find more people that want to work on Ruby libraries


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

e.g 

/*
    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 patience.

-- 
Guillaume Morin <address@hidden>

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