[GRASS-PSC] SVN Write Access Request

[Michael Barton]

+1 from me too. But didn't we already vote on this a couple days ago???

Michael


On 5/15/08 3:54 AM, "Hamish" <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Marco:
>> I read and accepted the terms of the RFC 2 document
>> published here:
>> http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass6_progman/rfc/rfc2_psc.html
> 
> ok, then "+1" from me.
> 
> 
>>> simple curiosity: where do you expect your initial
>> WinGRASS commits to be? In a dir in the source code like
>> macosx/ and debian/, or in the grass-web
>> grass63/binary/mswin/ area, or ..?
>> 
>> 1) grass-web/trunk/grass63/binary/mswindows/native
>>  
>> to maintain the published release documentation
>>  
>> 2) branches/develbranch_6/win32
>>  
>> the folder where i put all the scripts and files needed to
>> prepare the release installer (as an exe file).
> 
> why refer to 32bit in the dirname?
> 
> 
>> Just few questions: all the files (dos batch scripts, the
>> NSIS script, icons and documents) are made by me, with the
>> exception of:
>>  
>> 2.1) the bmp files (4) for the installer GUI, taken from
>> the standard library of NSIS (that is OS, obviously)
> 
> it may be "open source", but that means 1001 different things, many of which
> we can not touch. what is the license exactly? are those 4 files distributed
> under terms compatible with the GPL? If not GPL is it one of the OSI
> usual-suspects approved set?
> 
>> 2.2) a small part of the installer, a function to let
>> replace parts of strings; I just copied and pasted it,
>> maintaining the header, where is clear the line
>> ";Written by [author]"
> 
> what license terms did the author provide it with? you can not just cut and
> paste things from the internet or "cook books", even with attribution. is it a
> simple one- liner that is hard to write any other way, or is it an original
> work?  without a clear license you can not distribute the code. if in doubt
> try and contact the author of that code, they may give you full permission to
> use, modify, and redistribute it.
> 
> 
>> does it match the RFC 2?
> 
> Without more details I don't know.
> to be clear, it is explicitly the committer's responsibility to ensure that
> everything they put in the repo is legally kosher.
> 
> 
> (this is perhaps a matter that should be cc'd to the -dev list for wider
> audience + comment)
> 
> 
> good reading:
>   http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
> 
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