[Savannah-hackers] Project Rigobot in Savannah

[Jaime E. Villate]

Hi,
I'm evaluating your project for approval in Savannah. I've noticed that you
removed the last section of the GPL in the file COPYING. Please replace
COPYING by a complete, verbatim copy of the GPL
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt); the section "How to Apply These Terms
to Your New Programs" is also part of the license and it should not be
removed.

You also need to put Copyright notices and copying permission statements in
every Camel .ml file. You can modify your program gpl.it to make it put that
missing information in a comment at the beginning of each .ml file.

Finally, I'd like to point out that in order to host your project here, we
need a commitment from your part to ensure that the GNU/Linux version of your
program always runs better or as well as the MSWindows port of it. This is
because we do not want to encourage our users to start using proprietary
operating systems to be able to fully use your software.

Please make the licensing changes mentioned above and register your project
again, with a statement accepting to maintain a GNU/Linux version that should
never be in disadvantage with the MSWindows version.

Cheers,
Jaime

> Submitted Description: Rigobot is a project that aims at learning some
> aspects of event oriented programming to children from six to fifteen years
> old. It would be specially used at schools, clubs, ... Several years ago
> Logo was developped for this goal (for imperative programming), but
> nowadays, it's somewhat deprecated due to its lack of nice graphics and
> user-interface. Our idea is to let users program the behavior of a robot
> that moves in a three-dimensional world, rendered with openGL... Tutorials
> and Exercises will be provided, as well as a network mode allowing users to
> see their robots together in the virtual world. Colobot <www.colobot.com> is
> such a project, but it is far from being free/open... (License for schools
> costs $500), and is a little bit too game oriented. The program absolutely
> has to run on MSWindows, but will be mainly developped under
> GNU/Linux. Ocaml was chosen for the programming langage for its portability,
> suitability to openGL, debugging facilities and performances. The project is
> in the early stage of its development, a web-site currently resides at
> <http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~tgazagna/rigobot/index.html> ;, there are links to
> a snapshot of the devel branch, as well as a more indeep description of the
> project and its goals (in french :-).

> Required software: the program is written in ocaml, therefore it needs a
> complete installation of ocaml 3.04 in order to compile, but, binaries won't
> need it. currently, the program depends on the following ('non-standard')
> libraries : * tcl/tk 8.3 * openGL (or mesa) * GLUT there shouln't be a lot
> of additional dependencies.