Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Iguana Scripting Language - savannah.gnu.org

[Michael J. Flickinger]

On Saturday 31 July 2004 12:54 pm, Davide Angelocola wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2004, at 4:31 PM, Michael J. Flickinger wrote:
> > 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".
>
> Done for COPYING (and thus GPL). What about the GFDL for documentation?
>
> > Additional instructions are available from
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.
> >
> > For your reference, these files lack the proper GPL header:
> >
> >     /Iguana/getplatform.c
> >     ./Iguana/getcompiler.c
> >     ./Iguana/traceback.c
> >     ./Iguana/errors.c
> >     ...
>
> I'm adding this header:
>
> /*
>   * filename
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Davide Angelocola and others.
>   *
>   * Iguana is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> and/or
>   * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. There is
>   * ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for Iguana. See the COPYING for more
>   * details.
>   */
>
> In order to correctly applying the GPL license to this program I've
> also to add this header to Iguana's scripts? I want to give  freedom of
> choice to people that write an Iguana script: it is really needed that
> these script must be released under GPL? And what about the library?
>
> > If you are willing to make the changes mentioned above, please provide
> > us with an URL to an updated tarball of your project.  Upon review, we
> > will reconsider your project for inclusion in Savannah.
>
> I agree.
>
> Best Regards,
> Davide Angelocola
>
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For the FDL, please consult: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html#SEC4

Please use the standard GPL header, as found in the GPL itself.

Example:

    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>

    This program 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.

    This program 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


> In order to correctly applying the GPL license to this program I've
> also to add this header to Iguana's scripts? I want to give  freedom of
> choice to people that write an Iguana script: it is really needed that
> these script must be released under GPL? And what about the library?

Since the scripts are code distributed in your package, it would be wise to 
keep them under the same terms as the rest of the software in your package.
This also helps prevent confusion on the licensing terms of your scripts.


Regards,

-- 
Michael J. Flickinger