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task #10444: Submission of sim3d

Submitter:  Daniel Fiser <danfis>
Submitted:  Sun 06 Jun 2010 08:44:33 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Sun 06 Jun 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Wed 16 Jun 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Cancelled Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  alexfernandez Open/Closed:  Closed
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Wed 23 Jun 2010 08:36:50 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Hi Dan,

No problem, I am closing this submission but you can resubmit whenever you see fit. Thanks for notifying us!


Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Wed 23 Jun 2010 09:06:12 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Hi,

> Daniel: Please note that Savannah supports projects of the Free
> Software movement, not projects of the Open Source movement.
> ...

I am aware of difference between free software and open source. We were planning to release our software as free software and we were assuming nobody involved in this project wouldn't have any problem with that - this project was started as part of european scientific project paid from public money.
Now it seems authors of CAD models of robots (which are the binary data I mentioned before) either generaly don't care or don't want to release the data under any free license. Either way they are not responding and I can't influence it.

> If you are no longer planning use GNU Savannah please let us
> know. We won't bite, and it will make us gain time.

Because of reasons described above, it would be better to cancel registration of this project to Savannah and I will repeat a registration later when (and if) all license problems will be solved. I'm really sorry for your waste of time, I didn't excpect any of these problems.

Cheers,
   Dan

Daniel Fiser <danfis>
Tue 22 Jun 2010 05:29:42 PM UTC, comment #4: 

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June 22th 2010 in GNU Savannah task #10444: "Submission of sim3d"

Hi everybody.

>I forgot that we have included binary data files in
>repository. Because we didn't make these files we have to contact the
>original makers to approve some open source license. It will be done
>until end of week and I will notice you when it's finished.


Daniel: Please note that Savannah supports projects of the Free
Software movement, not projects of the Open Source movement.

We are careful about ethical issues and insist on producing software
that is not dependent on proprietary software.

While Open Source, as defined by its founders, means something pretty
close to Free Software, it's frequently misunderstood.  For more
information, please see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html.

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How are going the issues with this project.  Have you fixed them?

If you are no longer planning use GNU Savannah please let us know.  We
won't bite, and it will make us gain time.

Regards.

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Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc>
Mon 07 Jun 2010 08:53:41 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Great! Just let us know when it is finished, and please include the license for the binary files (including copyright holder and year) in the README when you get the author's approval.

No problem about having two COPYING files if the README is clear enough, I think, but I'm sure that others will correct me if I'm wrong.

For what is worth, keeping a written statement from all copyright holders as to the license approval would be a good idea (although not a requirement). Keep in mind that others without any connection to the original authors might use, modify and redistribute the software, and if the original author of the binary files ever change their mind it might be a problem. Better safe than sorry, as they say.

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Mon 07 Jun 2010 11:28:03 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Hi,
thanks for fast reply.

  • README file created with license section
  • I'm not sure how to deal with COPYING/COPYING.LESSER files. LGPL is defined as GPL with exceptions, so I assumed that it's necessary to include both licenses (COPYING = GPL, COPYING.LESSER = LGPL). It is described same way at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html (if I did understand well).
  • I added license notes to all files that are not generated (I hope I didn't forget for any).
  • I forgot that we have included binary data files in repository. Because we didn't make these files we have to contact the original makers to approve some open source license. It will be done until end of week and I will notice you when it's finished.


Tarball with new version of code can be found at:
http://gitview.danfis.cz/sim?a=snapshot;id=d7e4d0c3f661865c8b2ad9716599f7bd0e25f919;format=tgz;

Daniel Fiser <danfis>
Sun 06 Jun 2010 10:37:42 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi Daniel,

I am reviewing your submission on behalf of Savannah. There are a couple of issues with the tarball:

  • You do not provide a README; this is mostly a convenience but it would help with the following issues.
  • You provide two different license files, COPYING (gplv3) and COPYING.LESSER (lgplv3). It is confusing to anyone who downloads the code.
  • A number of files (Makefile, src/testsuites/component.hpp...) do not have copyright information. If they are autogenerated it is not needed; otherwise they need the license header.
  • The files in data/ do not have copyright information either; as they seem to be binary files it might not be feasible to include the license header. What is normally done is state clearly in the README for these files the license, copyright holder and year.


Can you please correct these issues and upload a new tarball, so we can continue with the process? Thanks!

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Sun 06 Jun 2010 08:44:33 AM UTC, original submission:  

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  • Name: sim3d
  • System Name:  sim3d
  • Type: non-GNU software & documentation
  • License: GNU Lesser General Public License





Description:

sim is robotic simulator originaly created for Symbrion/Replicator european project [1]. The goal of project is to create full library/framework for simulation of robots, sensors and environment.

sim is written mostly in C++ and is currently based on OpenSceneGraph and ODE libraries.

[1]http://www.symbrion.eu


Other Software Required:

OpenSceneGraph, http://www.openscenegraph.org, OpenSceneGraph Public License (based on LGPL http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/attachment/wiki/Legal/LICENSE.txt)

ODE, http://www.ode.org/, LGPL or BSD

SDL, http://www.libsdl.org/, LGPL

Bullet, http://bulletphysics.org, BSD



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At http://gitview.danfis.cz/sim can be seen git repository.


Tarball URL:

http://gitview.danfis.cz/sim?a=snapshot;id=5459b66cb1c81e87427fdeea945de267860b25e7;format=tgz;


Daniel Fiser <danfis>

 

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