ask for APSL? for real this time?

John Pfersich jp1660 at att.net
Thu Jan 8 05:07:03 UTC 2004


>Just a question - since when does SourceForge care about the
>open-sourcedness of a development tool?  I've had involvement with at least
>one project (MinneStore) at SourceForge where the development tools in
>question (VW, Dolphin, and other Smalltalks) are most emphatically NOT open
>source and the project was approved without question.  There are other
>projects there that are developed for .NET (the NUnit testing framework that
>I use comes to mind), and .NET is most emphatically not an open-source
>development tool.  So has SourceForge changed their policy?
>
>Bob Jarvis
>Compuware @ Timken

They say they changed their policy  back in 2002, but it seems to much
stricter in the past six months.. Hell, I can't even get a decent answer
other than the review committee affirmed the first rejection.

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gary Fisher [mailto:gafisher at sprynet.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:27 AM
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> Subject: Re: ask for APSL? for real this time?
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Well,  I tried to register a project at SourceForge that
>> was to be based
>> on
>> > Squeak
>> > and they rejected it because they don't consider Squeak to
>> be open source.
>> > I don't
>> > consider the current license to be adequate in any shape or
>> form.  And
>> with
>> > that
>> > kind of attitude, I'll not continue its development in Squeak.
>> >
>>
>>
>> Sorry to hear of your disappointment, John, but I find it
>> hard to think of
>> SourceForge as the sole arbiter of the viability of a project.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Pfersich" <jp1660 at att.net>
>> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
>> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:22 AM
>> Subject: Re: ask for APSL? for real this time?
>>
>>
>>
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