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task #4321: Submission of SIL Isn't Leker's

Submitter:  Pol <pol>
Submitted:  Mon 27 Jun 2005 12:56:38 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Mon 27 Jun 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Thu 07 Jul 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  kickino Open/Closed:  Closed
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Wed 29 Jun 2005 08:10:27 PM UTC, comment #7: 

Hi,

I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail containing detailed information about the approval.



Nevertheless 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.


Regards.

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Wed 29 Jun 2005 01:25:57 PM UTC, comment #6: 
Pol <pol>
Wed 29 Jun 2005 11:38:55 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Hello again.

About your question:
The syntax "Copyright (C) year1, year2, year3 copyright-holder" is only a suggestion from the FSF, not a must.
But you can write 30years in that syntax without any problem, I think....

Because of the README files:
"All files within this directory are Copyright © 2005 Pol Danilov"
is not enough. That's the copyright notice but the license notice is still missing. Please add the notices as usual from the license in all of your README file, too.
"This program is free software; you can redistribute [...]"

Thanks.

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Wed 29 Jun 2005 09:52:40 AM UTC, comment #4: 

The new version is here:

http://tinyurl.com/arlo2


o I have updated all source files with proper copyright/license info
o I have added a README file in all directories contianing binary files which expresses copyright
o I have updated my "COPYING" file with the new FSF address
o As well as changed all references from "COPYING.txt" to "COPYING"

I have a question about the copyright notice style...
The page you refered me to (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html) says that the Copyright notice style should be as follows:
Copyright (C) year1, year2, year3  copyright-holder

My question is... what if this software has been in development for 20, 30 years? :) ...surely you can't expect someone to list all individual years?

Pol <pol>
Wed 29 Jun 2005 08:59:27 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Hello.

First, all of your files (but menu.py) lack any notices about copyright and licensing. Please include there also these notices.

Second, the pictures and sound files (as binary files) lack also any notices. Please include in the directory of these binary files a README file and write there the copyright and license notices for these files down.
See also http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html

And last, the address of the FSF has changed, and is now:

  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA

Please update your license notices.

Updates versions of the GPL, LGPL and GFDL can also be found at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt

Please update the copy of the license (usually, the 'COPYING' file) in your package as well.

You can find some background and a possible migration script at https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=3766


Look forward to your updated tarball.
Regards,

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Wed 29 Jun 2005 06:26:43 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Here is a temporary URL pointing to a tar.gz archive of the current source code to my SIL project:

http://tinyurl.com/7uh3r

I have also attempted to upload it to the project submisson task page:
https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=4321

Pol <pol>
Tue 28 Jun 2005 10:44:03 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,
I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

Please include a (perhaps temporary) URL pointing to the source code.
The description you gave when registering will not be read by the general public.
If you are still concerned with privacy, however, you can forward the code to me by email.

We wish to review your source code, even if it is not functional, to catch potential legal issues early.

For example, to release your program properly under the GPL you must include a copyright notice and
permission-to-copy statements at the beginning of every file of source code.  This is explained in
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.  Our review would help catch potential omissions such as these.


Regards,

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Mon 27 Jun 2005 12:56:38 AM UTC, original submission:  


Site Admin. Approval/Edition URL:
 <https://savannah.gnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=7750>


###### ORIGINAL SUBMISSION DETAILS ######

System Group Name:
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  sil


Full Name:
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  SIL Isn't Leker's


Type:
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  non-GNU software & documentation


License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later


Other License:
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Description:
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  I am attempting to clone a 2D side-scrolling action video game.  It's titled "Silencer" and was originally produced by Mind Control Software.  The networking technology was produced and hosted by WON.NET but for one reason or another, they decided to stop supporting Silencer in May 2001, around the time they were merging with Sierra Games.  This meant that from then on you could only play the offline "Tutorial" mode which wasn't really a game at all.

Silencer was a space/hacker-themed shooter which was set in the future on Mars.  Silencer agents working for independent organizations would hack government facilities in order to reveal their corrupt secrets.  It featured several maps, RPG-style statistics (levels, techs, etc) and in-game chat.

Silencer has been "dead" for about 5 years now but there is still a surviving community of veteran Silencer players who have had a 5-year-long passion of reviving the game.  One of the community's leaders now has an internship with Mind Control and the specific task of re-coding the network play portion.  But it is closed source and always will be closed source and production is very slow.

The founder of Mind Control is Andrew Leker and my project's name is SIL, standing for SIL Isn't Leker's.  I'm developing it using Python + pygame and intend to release my work under the GNU GPL pending approval from Andrew Leker.


http://arsia-mons.com/
http://mind-control.com/gameDetail.php?gameID=02
http://arsia-mons.tproc.org/


Other Software Required:
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  python http://python.org/
pygame http://pygame.org/
sdl http://libsdl.org/
psyco http://psyco.sf.net/


Other Comments:
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  I am currently the only SIL developer with occasional contributions from one other Silencer community programmer.  There's still a lot of work to do.

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Pol <pol>

 

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