Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of MiMMS isn't an MMS Message Sender - savannah.nongnu.org

[Elfyn McBratney]

Hi,

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

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:34:14PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Wesley J. Landaker <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: MiMMS isn't an MMS Message Sender
> System name: mimms
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> MiMMS (formerly known as mmsclient) is a simple command-line client to 
> download
> streaming audio and/or video media from the internet using the MMS (this 
> refers
> to mms:// URL's -- not the MMS related to SMS) protocol. Downloaded media
> streams are saved as normal media files that can then be replayed offline at
> your leisure, using any compatible media player of your choice (i.e. mplayer,
> xine, etc).
> 
> The original source for mmsclient is:
> http://www.geocities.com/majormms/mms_client-0.0.3.tar.gz 

In order to release your project properly and unambiguously 
under the GPL, please place copyright notices and permission-to-copy
statements at the beginning of every file of source code.

In addition, if you haven't already, please copy a copy of the plain
text version of the GPL, available from
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt), into a file named "COPYING".

Additional instructions are available from
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.

The GPL FAQ explains why these procedures must be followed.  To learn
why a copy of the GPL must be included with every copy of the code,
for example, go to
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyMustIInclude

> In the process of packaging this software for Debian GNU/Linux, I have had no
> luck over the course of several months to contact the original author (who
> leaves no contact information whatsoever on his web page or in the package) so
> I and several other users I've spoken with decided to take over maintenence of
> the software. (Of course, the software is released under the GNU GPL, so this
> is perfectly legitimate. =) To avoid confusion with another project called
> "mmsclient" (on sourceforge) that uses a different MMS protocol (related to
> SMS for mobile phones), I decided to rename this MiMMS (MiMMS isn't an MMS
> Message Sender ;).

In order to place MiMMS under the GPL, you need to find to find out who holds
copyright on the code.  Without this we cannot accept the project, as there
could be legal problems in the future.

If you can get this information, and add correct copyright statements and
permission to copy statements to the source files, we can accept your
project.

-- 
Elfyn McBratney

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