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

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        I understand you want to publish this software under a
Modified BSD (or expat license also wrongly known as MIT license)
license of some kind. Is this a problem to use Modified BSD instead of
the license you propose ? 

        If you definitely want the proposed license, please talk
to address@hidden so that it is examined and (presumably) added
to the list of GPL compatible licenses.

        Thanks in advance,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Aubrey Jaffer <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: other
 > Other License: Permission to copy this software, to modify it, to 
 > redistribute it,
 > to distribute modified versions, and to use it for any purpose is
 > granted, subject to the following restrictions and understandings.
 > 
 > 1.  Any copy made of this software must include this copyright notice
 > in full.
 > 
 > 2.  I have made no warrantee or representation that the operation of
 > this software will be error-free, and I am under no obligation to
 > provide any services, by way of maintenance, update, or otherwise.
 > 
 > 3.  In conjunction with products arising from the use of this
 > material, there shall be no use of my name in any advertising,
 > promotional, or sales literature without prior written consent in
 > each case.
 > Package: Docupage
 > System name: docupage
 > This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > For free software projects, the processes of generating and converting 
 > documentation,
 > packaging releases, and creating announcements differ only in minor details. 
 > Yet each
 > project replicates this machinery; or worse lacks it. 
 > 
 > Version numbers and release dates occur in so many places, that it is rare 
 > for all of
 > them to be correctly updated in a large project release. Changes in 
 > operation of
 > document formating tools can require that Makefiles in every project 
 > directory be
 > modified. 
 > 
 > Docupage unifies and encapsulates these processes. Literate programs 
 > (incorporating
 > document source) and document source files are managed and combined to 
 > produce
 > plaintext, PostScript, HTML, Info, and PDF format outputs through one 
 > mechanism.
 > Project (WWW) home pages are automatically updated in synchrony with software
 > releases.
 > 
 > It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.
 > The HITCH, INFOBAR, and Schmooz components are available from
 > http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/Docupage/index.html
 > 

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