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

[Arash Zeini]

Hi Jaime,

A big thanks goes to all of you savannah-hackers and RMS, who made
this possible for us.

Please find my comments to your notes below:

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:14:13 AM, Jaime E . Villate wrote:

> 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.

We are aware of the difference. Chapar Shabdiz being a commercial
company may have a tendency toward open source or calling itself an
open source company, but the license for any code even in Chapar
Shabdiz is always GPL, as far as we can see. BNA as an umbrella
project is not intending to promote open source in Savannah,
rather using the ML facility for example to have our discussions.

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

I think licenses will always be GPL or similar to it. We are aware of
your list of approved 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.

I am not sure if I understand this. Let's say a list or project member
writes an app for FarsiKDE. FarsiKDE falls under the administration of
Bonyade Narmafzarhaye Azad. Can she/he/we release its code as part of
this project? That would be great.
If Chapar Shabdiz Ltd. releases a software, that would be registered
as a separate project. 
Would that be alright?

> Regards,
> Jaime

Thanks again,
Arash

> 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...) fo
> r 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.
> >