[Savannah-register-public] [task #9944] Submission of Argile programming language compiler

[Mario Castelán Castro]

Follow-up Comment #5, task #9944 (project administration):

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December 5th 2009 in GNU Savannah item 9944: "Submission of Argile
programming language compiler"

>Do I need to specify "(see the AUTHORS file distributed along with
>this software)" everywhere ?  or is "the Argile authors" sufficient ?
>(some files do not have this precision in their copyright notices as
>it seemed pedantic)

You do not need to specify the "see the AUTHORS file..." anywhere, in
README file (With alredy added notices in the file listing) are
enough.

>I also changed the license of the runtime library from zlib to LGPL
>rather than GPL because I think that forcing GPLization of programs
>written in this language could scare a lot of programmers away (it is
>a new programming language, and no other compiler for it exist yet).

>However, I am open to suggestions.

To copyleft or no to copyleft the run time libraryes is up to you, the
hosting requirements do not talk about that. so I think than the
hosting requirement are meet but I can't approve the project. An
administrator will do a final review and approve the project if all is
ok.

In GNU project we prefer freedom to popularity. Enforcing the programs
to be free will give away the propietary software programmers but no
the free software ones, this at some degree a boost to free
software. Maybe even some propietary developers will release their
code under a free licence to be able to use the program (Argile in
this case) this alredy happen with CLISP and GNU Readline. These ideas
are well explained in the RMS's essay "Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism"
(http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html). For more information
about the CLIPS case see
http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL.

Item status changes:

Status -> Need admin
Percent complente -> 90%
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