Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of locfinder - savannah.nongnu.org

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi Jimmy,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

In order to release your project under the GPL you
should write copyright notices and copying permission
statements at the beginning of every source-code file, and
include a copy of the plain text version of the GPL
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt). Copy it for instance
into a file named COPYING.

Please follow the advice of http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

The GPL FAQ can also help you understand the reason behind
thoses recommendations. For example, there is an entry explaining
why the GPL requires including a copy of the GPL with
every copy of the program:
 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyMustIInclude

Please remove GIF images files from your project and replaced them
by other format (such as PNG or JPEG).

Because of the patents (Unisys and IBM) covering the LZW
compression algorithm which is used in making GIF files,
it's impossible to have free software to generate proper
GIFs. They also apply to the compress program

For more information read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

Please register your project once more with the changes mentioned above.
The way we handle pending projects makes it difficult to keep track of
projects that have been answered but have not been approved yet, so
we erase them and we ask you to register the project again every time
some change has to be done to the registration. Thank you for your
understanding.

Some users find it useful to use the big re-registration URL provided in
the acknowledgment e-mail you received after registration.

Regards,
Jaime 

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 09:44:14AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> James Healy <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: locfinder
> System name: locfinder
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> locfinder is a set of PHP scripts that allows members of a Community Wireless 
> Group to record their location and information on their setup so that others 
> may connect to them.
> 
> Most of the information is optional, however the more the user enters, the 
> more use they will find for the website.
> 
> Optional extras include the use of a mapserver, ip allocations, geographic 
> areas, routing and DNS intergration.
> 
> locfinder was originally written for Melbourne Wireless, and can be seen in 
> use  @ http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/nodes however the code is very 
> Melbourne Wireless specific, so this project is an effort to move 
> configuration to a central file.
> 
> a recent tarball of the source is available @ 
> http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/~yob/locfinder_v21.tar.gz (if using wget to 
> grab it, you\'ll have to use the -U switch)
> 
> Other Software Required:
> - PHP4
> - A Database Package (most major packages are acceptable - locfinder uses 
> phplib\\\'s Database abstraction layer)
> - Mapserver (mapserver.gis.umn.edu) - optional
> 
> Other Comments:
> locfinder was originally written by Drew Ulricson in TCL, and then ported to 
> PHP by James Healy.
>