At Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:09:48 +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
"Alfred M. Szmidt" ams@gnu.org
joey@infodrom.de
So, was this a mistake? And if so, has it be corrected?
May this be a lesson to all.
In case anyone missed it, the lesson was: publicise problems. The corrections happened after it was posted to many lists.
Also, it's only a postponement, not a long-term fix. Please help explain to savannah-hackers-public@gnu why requiring a known-buggy GPL-incompatible licence is a bad idea.
Requiring a certain license is just a stupid thing to begin with. The requirement should be that it's free (or you can add the extra requirement that it should be GPL-compatible like gna.org has, that's also useful because you then share all code).
But if somebody wants to release his documentation under the BSD license, I don't see any reason why that should be forbidden by savannah.
Jeroen Dekkers