Comments on: When free isn’t good enough: pushing free software authors away http://blog.zerodogg.org/2006/02/15/when-free-isnt-good-enough-pushing-free-software-authors-away/ Geeky comments on geeky things Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:58:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Zero_Dogg’s blog » Blog Archive » Why GNA! is better than Savannah http://blog.zerodogg.org/2006/02/15/when-free-isnt-good-enough-pushing-free-software-authors-away/comment-page-1/#comment-525 Zero_Dogg’s blog » Blog Archive » Why GNA! is better than Savannah Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:18:38 +0000 http://blog.iamaturtle.org/?p=49#comment-525 [...] Then one day I thought about this and well, using a proprietary website to produce and manage a free software project makes…well…no sense. So then I started looking at the alternatives. I landed on Savannah. My first Savannah project was GoldenPod. Followed by the (mostly dead) GoldenBackup (no link due to no website nor release, it does have a CVS though). Then followed by the common configuration parser. Then I had my disagreements with Savannah (as some of you might remember). [...] [...] Then one day I thought about this and well, using a proprietary website to produce and manage a free software project makes…well…no sense. So then I started looking at the alternatives. I landed on Savannah. My first Savannah project was GoldenPod. Followed by the (mostly dead) GoldenBackup (no link due to no website nor release, it does have a CVS though). Then followed by the common configuration parser. Then I had my disagreements with Savannah (as some of you might remember). [...]

]]> By: Sebastian Wieseler http://blog.zerodogg.org/2006/02/15/when-free-isnt-good-enough-pushing-free-software-authors-away/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Sebastian Wieseler Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:38:15 +0000 http://blog.iamaturtle.org/?p=49#comment-373 Did you read the statements of the Debian project because of the GNU FDL and the voting? Debian accepted the GNU FDL as a free documentation license if your documentation doesn't contain any invariant sections. So 'Free is good enough' for the Debian project, too. :-) Did you read the statements of the Debian project because of the GNU FDL and the voting?

Debian accepted the GNU FDL as a free documentation license if your documentation doesn’t contain any invariant sections.

So ‘Free is good enough’ for the Debian project, too.
:-)

]]> By: Sebastian Wieseler http://blog.zerodogg.org/2006/02/15/when-free-isnt-good-enough-pushing-free-software-authors-away/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Sebastian Wieseler Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:16:08 +0000 http://blog.iamaturtle.org/?p=49#comment-321 Hey, I think you missed something here. Sylvain wrote: "Existing manuals of existing non-GNU packages which are currently licensed under GPL-2-or-later can remain on Savannah with their current licenses"[1] So it is only valid for NEW {non,}GNU project. Furthermore Sylvain wrote: "This policy applies to manuals written in Texinfo, and documentation which ought to be improved into such manuals."[1] So I guess your "little" documentation doesn't apply to the 'policy change'. Beside that, Debian didn't post ever a valid resource explaining why the GNU FDL isn't good for them. The resources you pointed out are only from other users... and who cares about Debian? ;-) [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4303 Hey,

I think you missed something here. Sylvain wrote:
“Existing manuals of existing non-GNU packages which are currently licensed under GPL-2-or-later can remain on Savannah with their current licenses”[1]

So it is only valid for NEW {non,}GNU project.

Furthermore Sylvain wrote:
“This policy applies to manuals written in Texinfo, and documentation which ought to be improved into such manuals.”[1]

So I guess your “little” documentation doesn’t apply to the ‘policy change’.

Beside that, Debian didn’t post ever a valid resource explaining why the GNU FDL isn’t good for them. The resources you pointed out are only from other users… and who cares about Debian? ;-)

[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4303

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