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

[Shawn Betts]

Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> writes:

> There are some legal tasks to deal with.
> 
> Several files are lacking copyright and license notices.

That should be fixed.

> 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.
> For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.
> 
> All files of more than 10 lines should carry appropriate notices.
> Check http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html
> 
> 
> None of the copyright notices bear '2004' and should be updated.

I've fixed that.

> We also recommand that you release the documentation under the GNU
> FDL. You appear to be using an FSF pre-GFDL license ("translation
> approved by the Free Software Foundation").

Done.

> Other non-trivial text files should also carry a small notice, such as
> an all-permissive one (see
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices.html) or a
> reference to the main GFDL notice (see
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto.html).

Done.

> last, we except that you will close your SF account, or make it a
> redirection to Savannah, one the move is done. Do you agree with this?

Yes, that's what I plan to do.

> This should be your latest cvs repository:
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/ratpoison-cvsroot.tar.bz2
> Check whether it is up-to-date.

Tomorrow this should be updated with my copyright changes.

> If you have a way to get your mail archives as mboxes or as a list of
> text e-mails, we can also import your mailing-lists.

I have an mbox of all the posts to ratpoison-devel.

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/pipemail/ratpoison-devel

> Aside from the legal issues, your project can be hosted at
> Savannah. Since you want to import the CVS repository, I suggest you
> do the changes in it, and we'll approve the project and import it
> then.

Okay, I've made the copyright changes. I have one question about
src/linkedlist.{c,h}. I took them from the Linux kernel but it didn't
have a copyright notice. I added this to the top:

/* This file was taken from the Linux kernel and is 
 * Copyright (C) 2003 Linus Torvalds
 *
 * Modified by Shawn Betts. Portions created by Shawn Betts are
 * Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Shawn Betts

Is that okay?

Thanks for your help!

-Shawn