[Savannah-dev] Re: licence of log_accum.pl and commit_prep.pl

[Mathieu Roy]

"Yves Mettier" <address@hidden> a tapoté :

> Hi
>
> I will use log_accum.pl and commit_prep.pl for my own needs.
> There is a licence issue: what licence are those scripts ?
>
> I took them from
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/savannah/savannah/backend/gnu-specific/#dirlist
> and I found a document COPYING.software in an upper directory. I presume the 
> 2 scripts
> are under GPL. Could you confirm ?

A while ago, I contacted all the authors of files with no correct
header and all of them replied it was ok to get them released under
GPLv2 and any later version.

So I can confirm. I had in plan to add the license note after the
reply but I apparently forgot to do it.

> Could you also add a notice in those scripts, in all scripts, about
>the licence ? If people take those scripts like me and use them,
>nobody knows about the licence there.
>
> I will add a notice about the licence in the scripts I took from the cvs. 
> Please do it
> too, please protect your software :)

Hum, since we discard 50% of registration on Savannah due to that
problem, asking software authors to take care about that and to
re-register with clear file headers, the situation is pretty *funny*
:) 

Regards,

-- 
Mathieu Roy

  +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | General Homepage:           http://yeupou.coleumes.org/             |
  | Computing Homepage:         http://alberich.coleumes.org/           |
  | Not a native english speaker:                                       |
  |     http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english  |
  +---------------------------------------------------------------------+