[Savannah-hackers] Re: Questions about the rules for Savannah projects

[Richard Stallman]

    > - The project is written in Java but has not been tested on any Free
    > java environment. The Classpath, gcj and Kaffe projects all provide
    > all the APIs that I actually use: eliminating this dependency should
    > be just a matter of doing some thorough testing and fixing any
    > incompatibilities that turn up.
    > 
    > - The project can (optionally) generate C# output files; these haven't
    > been tested on any Free C# implementation. Similarly to the situation
    > with Java, this should be just a matter of testing on Mono or DotGNU
    > and fixing any incompatibilities. The C# output is optional anyway.

These are not real problems because they are not direct dependencies
on any specific non-free software.  It ought to work with gcj, it's
just that there may be some bugs.  The C# output might work with
Portable.NET, it's just that there may be some bugs.

    > - The project's purpose is for database access, but the only databases
    > currently supported are proprietary (Oracle and Microsoft SQL
    > Server). Adding support for Free databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
    > should be essentially trivial for someone who knows the ins and outs
    > of these databases.

Could he remove the support for these databases before putting it into
Savannah?  He could re-add them once there is support for some free
data bases.

This way, the program would not ever depend on a non-free program.