Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of The New MH Mail Handling System

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,
nmh is a very nice project and it can be hosted here, but I'm having a hard
time figuring out whether your project should be approved or not. The problem
is that the only copyright note I've managed to find (in file COPYRIGHT) says:
  "Copyright (c) 2000, the authors of nmh
   All rights reserved."
but I have failed to find out who "the authors of nmh" are and whether you're
one of them.

The C programs in uip/ do not have any copyright or licensing information
either. They might as well be proprietary and I could not tell for sure
(that's why it is important to include licensing information in every file,
even if they are in the public domain). In the ChangeLog I see a lot of
activity by Dan Harkless and Dough Morris, but not you.

I know it is an old version that stopped being developped 2 years ago and
you're trying to reactivate it, which is a very good cause, but we need to
make sure nobody will complain if you register the project on your name, and
we also want to avoid this kind of hassle in the future by requesting you to
include copyright notices and licensing information in all source files.

Could you please register your project again giving us more information (once
the project gets approved you can make Shantonu Shen --and anybody else you
want-- a project administrator).

Regards,
Jaime

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:06:06PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: mbsd
> Other License: 
> Package: The New MH Mail Handling System
> System name: nmh
> This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> Description:
> My project is \"nmh\", the open source variant of the popular RAND mh mail 
> handling system.
> 
> nmh consists of a collection of fairly simple single-purpose programs to 
> send, receive, save, retrieve, and manipulate e-mail messages. Since nmh is a 
> suite rather than a single monolithic program, you may freely intersperse nmh 
> commands with other commands at your shell prompt, or write custom scripts 
> which use these commands in flexible ways.
> 
> It has been hosted at http://www.mhost.com/nmh but development on it has 
> stalled due to the site maintainer not having the time to manage the site.
> 
> Other Software Required:
> This project can make use of the Cyrus-SASL library (which is free), but it 
> does not require it.
> 
> Other Comments:
> The contact points for this project will be Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> 
> and Shantonu Shen <address@hidden>