[Savannah-cvs] administration/content/gnu-content/register req...

[Sylvain Beucler]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/administration
Module name:    administration
Branch:         
Changes by:     Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>        05/02/23 21:16:27

Modified files:
        content/gnu-content/register: requirements.txt 

Log message:
        Updated requirements with text from RMS precising non-free dependencies 
(plus some rephrasing)

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/administration/administration/content/gnu-content/register/requirements.txt.diff?tr1=1.8&tr2=1.9&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: administration/content/gnu-content/register/requirements.txt
diff -u administration/content/gnu-content/register/requirements.txt:1.8 
administration/content/gnu-content/register/requirements.txt:1.9
--- administration/content/gnu-content/register/requirements.txt:1.8    Sun Feb 
13 17:17:43 2005
+++ administration/content/gnu-content/register/requirements.txt        Wed Feb 
23 21:16:27 2005
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 <p>
-Please read these usage terms carefully. If you fail to comply with one
-of the terms, your project can be rejected; or if you do not give us enough
-information to determine whether your project conforms to our terms, we
-may have to ask you to register the project again with more details.
+Please read these usage terms carefully. If you don't follow them,
+we will not accept your project; if we don't have enough information
+determine whether your project follows these terms, we will
+have to ask you to register the project again with more details.
+Once your project is accepted, we expect you to continue following
+these terms.
+</p>
+<p>
+Our intent to provide a permanent home for all versions of your project.
+We do reserve the right, however, to discontinue hosting a project.
 </p>
-
 
 <h3>Use of Project Account</h3>
 
@@ -24,30 +29,37 @@
 <p>
 Even if your project is Free Software, if you want to host it here you
 have to accept to keep it independent from any non-free software.
-The program must not refer the user to any non-free software; in
-particular, it must not automatically download or install any non-free
+The package must not refer the user to any non-free software; in
+particular, the program must not automatically download or install any non-free
 software.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-It should also run on a free operating system, such as Debian
-GNU/Linux for example. We have adopted this policy because
-now that completely free operating systems exists, we do not want to
-encourage users of those systems to start using proprietary operating
-systems.
+The program should run on a free operating system, such as
+GNU/Linux. Otherwise it would be an inducement to switch to non-free
+operating systems.  All the substantial features of the program should
+be available on a free operating system.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-If you are willing to maintain a version for free operating systems,
-which will always work as well as or better than other ports, you can
-then provide versions for nonfree systems as well. The idea is that at
-no point should free-only users be at disadvantage compared to users of
-proprietary software. Your project should always work equally
-well in free systems as in any other versions you provide; if you have
-some modules for nonfree systems, you can delay their release until you
-have released the free operating system version.
+It is ok for the program to run on non-free operating systems also,
+provided it gives at least as good support to the free operating
+system.  In other words, at no point should your program put free-only
+users at disadvantage compared to those willing to use proprietary
+software.  This means that if someone offers you support for an
+additional feature, but only on non-free systems, you should port or
+adapt it to run on a free system before installing it.
 </p>
 
+<h3>No non-free formats software</h3>
+
+<p>
+Using a format such as Flash, RealPlayer and Quicktime, that can only
+be played using non-free software is, in effect, to recommend use of
+that non-free player software.  Therefore, the general
+requirement not to recommend non-free software implies that the package
+shouldn't contain or recommend materials in these non-free formats.
+</p>
 
 <h3>Advertisements</h3>
 
@@ -96,7 +108,7 @@
 </p>
 
 
-<h3>Free Software/Rights to Code</h3>
+<h3>Free Software Licenses</h3>
 
 <p>
 You will be presented with a choice of Free Software licenses for your
@@ -111,9 +123,3 @@
 If you wish to use another license that is not listed, let us know
 and we will review these requests on a case-by-case basis. 
 </p>
-
-<p>
-It is our intent to provide a permanent home for all versions of your project.
-We do reserve the right, however, to terminate your project if there is due
-cause.
-</p>