[fab] project hosting?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Apr 20 17:12:11 UTC 2006


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
>> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
>>> It is far from clear to me why Fedora needs to provide its own
>>> infrastructure for itself rather than just use something like Savannah.
>> Integrating the translation project into Savannah seems like
>> it would be hard, if not impossible.
> 
> Addtional points that would be problematic:
> 
> Savannah project musts:
> * Use a license compatible with the GNU GPL;

Any current/potential problems with this?

> * Refer to the GNU/Linux operating system instead of the Linux,
>   which is the kernel. Advertise the free software movements,
>   which we support, and not the open source one, which we don't.

The blurb about GNU/Linux I found said:
*... please acknowledge our work, by referring to this system as
'GNU/Linux', when you mention it in connection with this package
(savannah)."

I have no problem with that (and besides, they asked politely).

> * Do not use "Open" in your project name.

Not a problem.



-- Rex




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