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

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        The key question here is to figure out if your project can run
on a Free Software Java suite (see http://www.gnu.org/software/java/ for
more information). Could you please submit your project again with 
explanations about this ?

        Also note that Savannah supports projects of the Free Software
movement, not projects of the Open Source movement. We are careful about
ethical issues and insist on producing software that is not dependent on
proprietary software.

        A potential problem is the advertising clause of the proposed
Zeed license which may make it incompatible with the GNU GPL. Could
you please discuss this license with address@hidden ? Note that Savannah
only hosts projects released under licenses compatible with the GNU GPL so
that all these projects can freely be mixed together.

        Cheers,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Zaheed Haque <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: other
 > Other License: /* 
 > ====================================================================
 >  * The Zeed Public License, Version 1.0
 >  *
 >  * Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Zeed AB (556619-1853). All rights
 >  * reserved.
 >  *
 >  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 >  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 >  * are met:
 >  *
 >  * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
 >  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 >  *
 >  * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 >  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
 >  *    the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
 >  *    distribution.
 >  *
 >  * 3. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution,
 >  *    if any, must include the following acknowledgment:
 >  *       \"This product includes software developed by Zeed AB 
 >  *        (556619-1853) (http://www.zeed.net/) and the Hambo Community
 >  *        (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/hambo/).\"
 >  *    Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself,
 >  *    if and wherever such third-party acknowledgments normally appear.
 >  *
 >  * 4. The names \"Hambo\" and \"Zeed AB (556619-1853)\" must
 >  *    not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
 >  *    software without prior written permission. For written
 >  *    permission, please contact address@hidden
 >  *
 >  * 5. Products derived from this software may not be called \"Hambo\",
 >  *    nor may \"Zeed AB\" appear in their name, without prior written
 >  *    permission of Zeed AB (556619-1853).
 >  *
 >  * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS\'\' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
 >  * WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
 >  * OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
 >  * DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL ZEED AB (556619-1853) OR ITS
 >  * CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
 >  * SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 >  * LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF
 >  * USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
 >  * ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
 >  * OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT
 >  * OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 >  * SUCH DAMAGE.
 >  * ====================================================================
 >  *
 >  * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
 >  * individuals on behalf of Zeed AB (556619-1853) and the Hambo 
 >  * Community. For more information on Hambo, please see
 >  * <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/hambo/>. For more information on 
 >  * Zeed AB (556619-1853), please see <http://www.zeed.net/>.
 >  */
 > 
 > Package: Hambo
 > System name: hambo
 > This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > This project is going to be a freely available Java software package that 
 > includes a modularized application platform. The project will also include 
 > some web, WAP and SMS applications that can easily be deployed with the 
 > application platform.
 > 
 > The application platform will depend on a servlet container that conforms to 
 > the Servlet API Specification standard, version 2.2 or later. This way, the 
 > platform and the applications can be deployed as WARs (Web Application 
 > Archives) in the servlet container of your choice (be it free or commercial).
 >  
 > Right now our platform depends on the open source Enhydra Java/XML 
 > application server as servlet container, which does not conform to the 
 > standard. However we\'re going to get rid of Enhydra dependencies, so we can 
 > move to the standard servlet engine format.
 > 
 > At the moment most of the software does not work with any free database 
 > servers, only the commericial Sybase and Oracle servers. Although, we\'re 
 > going to fully support MySQL in a near future.
 > 
 > The software package Hambo does exist. However, we haven\'t set up a site 
 > yet for anyone to download it.
 > 
 > 
 > References:
 > Servlet API Specification: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html
 > Servlet container free of charge: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html
 > Enhydra Java/XML application server: http://enhydra.enhydra.org
 > Enhydra Public License: 
 > http://enhydra.enhydra.org/software/license/index.html
 > 
 > 
 > 
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