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

[Elfyn McBratney]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:35:47PM +0200, strk wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 08:29:28PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:26:08PM +0200, strk wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:15:52AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > > > Apologies for the typos in the subject and the submission header.
> > > > Should all be correct now.
> > > > 
> > > > Also, I'll keep the project in the pending queue for a couple of
> > > > days, if you can get us a tarball to review.  Otherwise, I'll
> > > > delete the request and you'll have to re-submit.
> > > 
> > > Project URL is: http://foo.keybit.net/~strk/sins
> > > There you can find CVS access, released packages and
> > > exploded source trees.
> > 
> > The following files lack the copyright statements and permission to
> > copy headers:
> > 
> >   src/VARS.c
> >   src/cmdline.c
> >   src/mod_human.h
> >   src/sins.h
> >   src/snake_compat.h
> >   src/snake_limits.h
> >   src/ui_picts.h
> > 
> > Also, is the file src/compat.c Public Domain?  If so, the file should
> > state that.  If not, please add the appropriate copyright statement
> > and license information.
> > 
> > Once you have fixed the above, and it checks out OK, I can approve
> > your project.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> I've added copyright statement and license information in all files
> written by me. The compat.c has been copied from here:
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part4/section-6.html
> I've added this url in that file. I dunno if it has to be considered
> 'Public Domain'...

From http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part4/preamble.html (second
paragraph):

  "This collection of documents is Copyright (c) 1994, Ted Timar, except
  Part 6, which is Copyright (c) 1994, Pierre Lewis and Ted Timar.
  All rights reserved.  Permission to distribute the collection is
  hereby granted providing that distribution is electronic, no money
  is involved, reasonable attempts are made to use the latest version
  and all credits and this copyright notice are maintained.
  Other requests for distribution will be considered.  All reasonable
  requests will be granted."

This means that you will not be able to use the code in src/compat.c
unless it's author licenses it under a more permissive license.
However, there is a GPL'd version of usleep() in GNULib
(http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/lib/nanosleep.c)
that you could use instead.

Can you use this GPL'd version instead?

-- 
Elfyn McBratney

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