Re: [Savannah-help-public] GNU software: MCSim

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

I noticed several points to fix in your tarball:

- The address of the FSF has changed, and is now:

  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA

Please update your license notices.

Please update the copy of the license (usually, the 'COPYING' file) in
your package as well.

Updated versions of the GPL, LGPL and GFDL can also be found at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt

You can find some background and a possible migration script at
https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=3766

(alternatively the GNU (L)GPLv3 standard notices include different
wording that do not mention the FSF snail mail address - see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html#howto)


- mcsim.texi uses the old-style license for GNU manuals. Please
  upgrade to the GNU FDL.


- Examples files (.MCMC.in) are "All rights reserved". This ain't
  free!  :)


Didn't GNU Eval tell anything about it?

-- 
Sylvain


On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:55:24PM +0100, Frédéric BOIS wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you. I checked the copyrights etc when I submitted originally to GNU, 
> quite a while ago.
> I just rechecked and pass every everything described on the "How to get 
> approved...".
> Namely:
> - The project runs on GNU/Linux primarily
> - It is under GNU GPL v2 or higher, v2 is provided in the package.
> - A small tech description is given on 
> http://fredomatic.free.fr/page_mcsim.html and the
>   manual is provided online too.
> - Pointers to the source code, beta, stable, and old version are on the above 
> web page.
> - OS are referred to as Unix and GNU/Linux on the online manual.
> - I checked the headers for copyright and license notice.
> If you find anything that needs correction please tell me and I will do it 
> for the next version 
> which should be 5.1.0.
> GSL and GLSCBLAS are the only required non-standard libraries. A small 
> separate utility relies on 
> wish, gnuplot and tcl/tk, but is not essential. Documentation is in texinfo 
> and needs translation tools
> to ps, html etc to be produced in those versions, but they are optional.
> 
> Voila. Attached is a tar ball of v5.1.beta. Thanks again for taking the time 
> to review it. I appreciate.
> 
> Frederic
> 
> 
> >>> Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> 29/11/2007 23:29 >>>
> Hi,
> 
> If you are a GNU project, the best course of action for now would be
> to carefully read
> http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToGetYourProjectApprovedQuickly 
> , in particular double-check all your copyright and license notices
> (for code, data, images, etc.) and license compatibilities for
> dependencies.
> 
> When your project complies with the requirements, send a mail again
> with a source tarball and I'll be able to quickly review it, and
> activate a project.
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:45:03PM +0100, Frédéric BOIS wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am the original developer and current maintainer of a GNU-distributed
> > software called MCSim (simulation software,
> > under GPL, in standard C, for GNU/Linux primarily). It is more and more
> > used in academia, industry and government and a 
> > team from Colorado State is developing an independent port to Windows
> > and asks for a branching. So far I have kept the 
> > CVS repository private but I feel it may be time to go public and I
> > would like to port it to Savannah (preferably, before 
> > considering SourceForge and the likes). I registered and saw that you
> > are not accepting new projects.
> > Can you tell me how long is the expecting waiting time?
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > Frederic Y. Bois
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > 
>