[Savannah-hackers] Re: Project eligibility for Savannah

[Christoph Reichenbach]

Hi,

Quoting Mathieu Roy <address@hidden>:

> You said that conceptually, it does not depends on proprietary
> programs. If I understand well, your software interpret SCI programs,
> and all of them are currently proprietary. 
> 
> I do not really know what means technically SCI. Is there specs freely
> available that permit creating free SCI programs?

Yes. Part of the FreeSCI project is to document these; there actually exists a
GPL'd SCI compiler now (on sourceforge). There are no technical or legal limits
preventing completely free SCI programs to be created (at least none I'm aware 
of).

> If it is the case, it's does not seem problematic to me.
[...]
> But I'm not completely sure. Jaime or Loic, please give your point of
> view.

OK, thanks! I'll wait for confirmation, then.

-- Christoph