Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Free Web Publishing System - savannah.gnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

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

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:57:32AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Justin White <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: There are three libraries included in the distribution that 
> are not part of FreeWPS.  Two are under the GPL (INCLUDES/OPENLAYOUT.PHP and 
> INCLUDES/SQL_AL.PHP).  The other does not have a specific license 
> (INCLUDES/MD5.JS).

It seems fine to me.

But:


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, and users might
have to register their projects several times. 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,

Rudy

> Package: Free Web Publishing System
> System name: freewps
> Type: GNU
> 
> Description:
> Free Web Publishing System[tm] (FreeWPS[tm]) is a free PHP-based content 
> management system, using an SQL backend for storing of content and site 
> configuration with HTML templates used for page layout.  FreeWPS provides an 
> simple means of managing the content/layout of a website.  FreeWPS provides 
> advanced security using an SQL table for users, as well as a separate table 
> for group permissions.  In addition, no user passwords are ever stored in 
> plain text.  FreeWPS uses an Javascript implementation of MD5 to hash the 
> username and password on the client side and that value is stored in the 
> database (for comparison at logon).  FreeWPS has advanced authoring 
> capabilities, with separate author and editor roles.  Authored pages must be 
> approved by an editor before available for display.  FreeWPS supports HTML 
> templates (with the OpenLayout library) and has support for Cascading Style 
> Sheets throughout.
> 
> The source code for FreeWPS has not yet been released.  However, the code is 
> available at:
> 
> http://www.ytztech.com/freewps-1.0.zip
> 
> Other Software Required:
> FreeWPS is dependent on PHP v. 4.2.0 or above.  FreeWPS also requires an  
> RDBMS.  Currently, FreeWPS supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL (as well as 
> some commercial SQL implementations).
> 
> Other Comments:
> 
> 
> 
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