From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c887193050c097ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-07 17:21:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.elcjn1.sdca.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C6326B3.8060205@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge References: <3C625604.1C948A06@gmx.de> <4519e058.0202070829.276f7773@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 01:21:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.elcjn1.sdca.home.com 1013131264 68.12.51.201 (Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:21:04 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:21:04 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19747 Date: 2002-02-08T01:21:04+00:00 List-Id: Dan Andreatta wrote: > dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) wrote in > news:4519e058.0202070829.276f7773@posting.google.com: > > There isn't a lot on either yet (well, Savannah has a lot when you > >>don't compare it to SourceForge), but both places are liable to be a >>bit more clueful about the GMGPL. It looks like using Savannah might >>also be an easier way to make your project an official GNU project. > There are other *good* reasons to prefer savannah. Read: > http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/announce/2001-November/000028.html ..the most damning of which in my mind is the inability to fully extract projects. In this economy, who knows what may happen to VA next week or next month. If you can't make a local archive and it goes bye-bye, you (and everyone using it) are hosed.