[Savannah-hackers] Re: Moving cfengine to savannah: licensing question.

[Mathieu Roy]

Hugo Gayosso <address@hidden> said:

> I talked with the maintainer of 'cfengine' about hosting it in
>  Savannah, I offered to do all the administrative tasks for him.
> 
> cfengine is already part of the GNU Project:
> 
> address@hidden:~$ grep -i cfengine /gd/gnuorg/maintainers
> cfengine (remote) - Mark Burgess <address@hidden>
> 
> While filling out the application in Savannah, I decided to review all
> the items and I discovered that 'cfengine' does not contain the "or
> later" clause.
> 
> I have sent an email to the maintainer (Mark) asking to add this
> clause, but what if he does not want?

Normally, with a non-GNU project, we would reject the offer.

But since it's a GNU package and since the primary goal of Savannah is
officially to host GNU packages, cfengine should be hosted even without
the "or later" clause.



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Mathieu Roy
 
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