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

[Elfyn McBratney]

Hello David,

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:15:10AM -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
> 
> Great.
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 01:05:29AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> > > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> > > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > > 
> > > 
> > > David A. Wheeler <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > > License: gpl
> > > Other License: 
> > > Package: SLOCCount
> > > System name: sloccount
> > > Type: non-GNU
> > > 
> > > Description:
> > > SLOCCount is a set of tools for
> > > counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)
> > > in a large number of languages
> > > of a potentially large set of programs.
> > > This suite of tools was used in my papers
> > > "More than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size"
> > > (http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc)
> ...
> > > Download at:
> > > http://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount/sloccount-2.24.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.
> 
> I thought I had, but I'll take a look.
> Most of my "permission-to-copy" statements are simply
> a reference to the license, like this:
>    (C) Copyright 2000 David A. Wheeler
>    Covered by the GNU GPL, version 2.
> I take it you want the longish text from the GPL
> in every file?

Yes.

> > 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".
> 
> Already there.
> 
> > If you can get the above fixed, and point us to a tarball containing
> > the fixes, we can approve your project.
> 
> Great!  I'm just trying to understand what you want.
> 
> > > Other Software Required:
> > > Perl, lex/flex.
> > > Frankly, I'd claim those are normally found a Free Software OS..!

You wrote that during registration, not me. :)

> True. But I wasn't sure what you wanted, so I figured
> it'd be safer to mention everything I could think of offhand,
> in case it was important to you.

BTW, thank you for flawfinder!  It has helped me in many ways over the
last year, for which I am truly greatful! :)

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Elfyn McBratney

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