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

[Guillaume Morin]

Hi,

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 file (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.


Dans un message du 24 jan à 15:11, address@hidden écrivait :
>
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Antoine Pitrou <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: SPIP
> System name: spip
> This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> SPIP is a free publication system on the Internet, mainly targetted
> at individuals, informal groups and non-profit organizations. SPIP allows 
> contributive
> writing and managing of  websites having a magazine-like structure, while not
> needing any HTML skills (except for defining the layout templates).
> 
> SPIP works using PHP and MySQL on a standard Web server (e.g. Apache).
> 
> 
> Functionalities :
> 
> - Eases management of a magazine-like Web site (i.e. a hierarchy of nested 
> sections
> containing articles and short stories), rather than a simple news feed.
> 
> - Separates the public site from the administration space. The latter can be 
> accessed
> by two kind of registered users : writers (who can submit articles and short 
> stories,
> and comment pending submissions) and administrators (who validate submissions,
> manage the site structure and configuration...). It includes a small 
> messaging 
> system between registered users.
> 
> - Graphical layout in the public site is defined by an arbitrary number of 
> HTML skeletons
> (or templates) that
> each define a different page type (usually : one for articles, one for 
> sections,
> etc.). The automatic insertion of redactional content by the engine into the 
> skeletons
> is defined by
> specific HTML pseudo-tags. HTML skeletons can also contain PHP code.
> 
> - Nearly every configuration and administration task (including installing in 
> itself - no
> manual SQL scripts)
> is done through a Web-based, user-friendly interface. Moreover, contributing 
> texts
> involves using some convenient
> typographic shortcuts so that no HTML skills are required to incorporate
> bold/italic text, subtitles, hyperlinks, footnotes and even images uploaded
> by the writer. The only task that requires a bit of technical learning is 
> writing
> HTML skeletons (though there is no need to understand PHP).
> 
> - The public site includes interaction possibilities : forums (comments
> can be posted under articles, short stories, even sections), petitions.
> 
> - A two-level caching system on the public side for template compilation,
> and page generation. This helps SPIP keep the resources taken on the
> server very low, even with high traffic. On a typical low-end server, cached
> pages take no more than some tens of milliseconds to return to the browser.
> The cache system is also designed to keep a working site when the database
> is down (useful for cheap web hosting...), though of course no
> dynamic functionality is then available (e.g. forums and back-office).
> 
> - An integrated lightweight fulltext indexation and search engine, which 
> incurs 
> no noticeable slowdown when enabled.
> 
> 
> Language :
> 
> This is probably the bad part. As of now, SPIP is in French. It
> doesn\'t prevent you to build sites in other languages, however, but
> you\'ll have to understand the interface and documentation. A few foreign
> users seem to have taken the step and adopted SPIP although they
> are not very capable in French.
> 
> 
> Current project sites :
> - http://www.uzine.net/spip (documentation)
> - http://rezo.net/spip-dev (downloads)
> 
> 
> Examples of sites created with SPIP :
> - http://www.uzine.net
> - http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr (see also http://MondeDiplo.com)
> - http://hns.samizdat.net
> - http://www.enduring-freedoms.org/summary.php3


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