Re: [Fwd: [gnome.org #1107] gnome account]

["Peter Parente" <parente gmail com>]

Also, to clarify about the LSR license, the first project prerequisite
at http://live.gnome.org/ProjectPrerequisites states that "The project
must be free/open source software." The CPL is a recognized OSI
license as seen at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.php.

Pete

On 5/30/06, Peter Parente <parente gmail com> wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod approved the import of the LSR project into
> cvs.gnome.org with our explicit statement that it is currently
> licensed under the Common Public License. There was no indication
> expressed to us at the time that using the CPL would be a problem. Is
> this now an issue?
>
> If so, please advise ASAP since LSR is already in CVS, already has a
> first release at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/lsr/0.2/, and
> has public pages at http://live.gnome.org/LSR.
>
> Pete
>
> On 5/30/06, George Kraft <gk4 austin ibm com> wrote:
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Ross Golder via RT <accounts gnome org>
> > Reply-To: accounts gnome org
> > To: gk4 austin ibm com
> > Subject: [gnome.org #1107] gnome account
> > Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 04:35:32 -0400 (EDT)
> > Let's not even risk putting GNOME in a legal 'situation'. or get our
> > sysadmins sucked into legal dilemmas we're not qualified or inclined to
> > consider! Let's just stick to the rules here for now - no exceptions
> > reqd. IMHO, IBM must publicly release a tarball, which expressly states
> > it's license as (L)GPL before it can be accepted by GNOME.
> >
> > It should be Peter's responsibility as a GNOME CVS account holder not to
> > import any code before it meets the requirements. In the unlikely event
> > that Peter is found to have broken this rule at any point, his account
> > will be suspended and any modules he maintains removed from public CVS.
> > If in any doubt, Peter should probably bring it up for open discussion
> > on gnome-infrastructure gnome org or something first.
> >
> > That seems to be the path of least resistance to me. Any better
> > suggestions welcome, but it's Kurt's call at the end of the day ;^P
> >
> >
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> >
> > George (gk4)
> >
> >