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task #8772: Submission of Alf's PDF Viewer Like Vim

Submitter:  Alf <naihe2010>
Submitted:  Fri 17 Oct 2008 06:00:43 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Fri 17 Oct 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Mon 27 Oct 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Cancelled Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  yavor Open/Closed:  Closed
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Tue 14 Apr 2009 07:32:35 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Timeout--closing this submission.

Feel free to resubmit your project later when you have more time
to deal with the registration issues.

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Regards.

Sebastian Gerhardt <sgerhardt>
Wed 10 Dec 2008 05:40:16 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I apologize for reverting so late; I hope you are still interested in hosting your project at Savannah.

I reviewed the tarball, and there are some fundamental problems with it, herewith ordered in priority:

1.a) In the project submission you indicate "GPLv2+", but the source files' notices show a different license, apparently the X11 License.  Is that a mistake?  Note that you cannot distribute your package at all under this license, because you link against the poppler library, which is GPLv2.  Doing so would violate the license of poppler.  The only way to do it is under "GPLv2 or later" or "GPLv2 only" (the latter not acceptable for Savannah) -- but note that by using poppler you won't be able to upgrade to GPLv3, at least as it stands now.  There's not much choice, though, at least until GNU PDF is ready...

b) The copyright statements say "1998-2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc."  Another mistake, perhaps?  The poppler library is younger, so it seems odd that apvlv is that old.  In general you should state the years in full, separated by commas.  Assigning copyright to the FSF or someone else requires a copyright assignment (legal papers that are physically signed and kept on file), otherwise it is not effective according to the current international conventions.  I'm not sure the FSF accepts assignments for non-GNU packages; in general they should, but they might avoid that to reduce the workload on their copyright clerk.

2. We can accept the project as non-GNU only; it can be later moved easily in the "GNU area" if approved as a GNU package.  See http://gnu.org/help/evaluation.html for details.

3. The tarball is missing a COPYING file.

4. To license your package unambiguously you should add license notices to all non-derived files -- that includes makefiles and others like configure.ac.  Usually, this alone is not a reason to reject a project at Savannah, but it is our duty to point out good practices.

Yavor Doganov <yavor>
Fri 17 Oct 2008 06:00:43 AM UTC, original submission:  

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Registration Details


  • Name: Alf's PDF Viewer Like Vim
  • System Name:  apvlv
  • Type: Official GNU software
  • License: GNU General Public License v2 or later





Description:

apvlv is a PDF Viewer Under Linux and its behaviour like Vim

Requires:
    * poppler
    * gtk-2.0




Other Software Required:

gtk-2.0
poppler


Tarball URL:

http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/apvlv-0.0.2.tar.gz


Alf <naihe2010>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2009-04-14 sgerhardt StatusWait reply Cancelled
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    2009-04-14 sgerhardt Attached File#16707 Removed
    2009-04-14 sgerhardt Carbon-CopyRemoved 47215 -
    2008-12-10 yavor Assigned toNone yavor
    2008-12-10 yavor StatusNone Wait reply
    2008-10-20 naihe2010 Attached File- Added apvlv-0.0.2.tar.gz, #16707

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