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

[Elfyn McBratney]

Hello Wesley,

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:32:12PM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> 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
>  *
>  */

I am not sure whether the above copyright attribution is valid - or
even legal.  To be sure, I will contact someone at the FSF to try
and find out.

I will contact you as soon as I hear from them.

-- 
Elfyn McBratney

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