Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Bonyade Narmafzarhaye Azad

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,
Thanks for the copy of the letter you sent me. I also talked to RMS about it
and he recommended the approval of your project. You should keep in mind some
very important points as you develop your project:

- Please remember that Open Source and Free Software are two separate
movements; we promote the free software ideas, not the open source ideas, so
we expect you to talk about Free Software, rather than Open Source in
Savannah.

- For instance, you should not accept open source licenses which are not free
software licenses.

- Software releases are a separate issue.  They should not be part of this
Savannah project. If you have any other software projects that you'd like to
release, you can register them as separate projects in Savannah.

Regards,
Jaime

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:09:14AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Arash Zeini <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Bonyade Narmafzarhaye Azad
> System name: bna
> This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> Description:
> The projects full name is \"Bonyade Narmafzarhaye Azad\" (BNA), which is 
> Farsi for \"Free Software Foundation\". It is an umbrella project of Chapar 
> Shabdiz Ltd., which is an open source company. The umbrella project is 
> supposed to be the top domain for all the community projects, launched or 
> supported by Chapar Shabdiz. Due to missing (very expensive) facilities in 
> Iran, we would like to setup a project in Savannah, in order to be able to 
> offer independent mailing lists and other facilities (CVS...) for our 
> community. 
> Chapar Shabdiz respects and accepts GPL and compatible licenses (Free 
> software or open source). The intention is to support Free software, 
> GNU/Linux and open source in Iran.
> Chapar Shabdiz intends to use this project fo rits own source release as well.
> Chapar Shabdiz has furthermore an authorization letter from RMS in order to 
> launch www.fsf.ir and www.gnu.ir. We could not launch these sites due to 
> missing, affordable and independent hosting resources in Iran.
> 
> Two projects already exist, as community projects. They are available at:
> http://www.farsikde.com and http://www.linuxiran.org
> 
> Chapar Shabdiz itself is reachable here:
> http://www.chaparshabdiz.com
> 
> Other Software Required:
> 
> 
> Other Comments:
> We would really appreciate your support in order to launch this umbrella 
> project. We wont be able to have our associated mailing lists for much longer.
>