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

[Wesley J Landaker]

Hi Elfyn,

Thanks for the response!

On Monday 26 July 2004 15:34, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

> 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.

You are absolutely correct; since I first submitted this application, 
I've done some work fixing up the licensing notices. This was work that 
had to be done anyway to get mimms into Debian, which I did shortly 
after I first submitted the request for project hosting.

The current source  of mimms has the following copyright statements:

For my (heavy) modifications:

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2004 Wesley J. Landaker <address@hidden>
 *
 * MiMMS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * MiMMS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  
02111-1307, USA
 */

And for the original code it's derived from -- taken verbatim:

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2000-2001 major mms 
<http://www.geocities.com/majormms/>
 *
 * This file is part of libmms
 *
 * libmms is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * libmms is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  
02111-1307, USA
 *
 */

Both of these statements are in every source file. The original upstream 
mmsclient source did not have a copyright statement, although it 
included the GNU GPL as part of the distribution. To avoid any 
uncertainty, I based mimms off the libmms version which was 99% 
identical, but did in fact have it's copyright statements in order.

> 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.

Everything should now be in order, but please let me know if you still 
have any concerns or questions. =)

You can obtain a copy of the latest source I've released from 
http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/mimms/0.0.6/ (the .orig.tar.gz) -- 
(or if you use Debian, you can fetch it directly from main).

-- 
Wesley J. Landaker <address@hidden>
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