I made an attempt to register Koha with Savannah back in May and got this reply back. Just a heads up in case we decide to go that route. Steve. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 12:17:14 +0100 From: "Jaime E . Villate" <villate@gnu.org> To: tonnesen@cmsd.bc.ca Cc: savannah-hackers@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Koha Library Automation Package Hi, In order to release your project under the GPL you must write copyright notices and copying permission statements at the beginning of every source code file, and include a copy of the plain text version of the GNU GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt; copy it, for instance, into a file named COPYING). In its current state, I can see that the perl programs in Koha were written by people from Katipo, but I cannot tell if you are allowed to modify them and import them to Savannah. Please write copyright notices and copying permission statements following the advice of http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html and when your are done register your project again. I also suggest that you write a README file describing your package. Regards, Jaime JaimeOn Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:40:28AM -0400, tonnesen@cmsd.bc.ca wrote:
A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org. This mail was sent to tonnesen@cmsd.bc.ca, savannah-hackers@gnu.org
Steve Tonnesen <tonnesen@cmsd.bc.ca> described the package as follows: License: gpl Other License: Package: Koha Library Automation Package System name: koha This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
Description: Koha is an open source library automation package.
Koha is currently hosted at sourceforge and can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/koha/
Other Software Required: perl (DBI DBD-mysql) apache mysql
Other Comments: Koha was initially developed by Katipo Communications of New Zealand for a group of libraries in New Zealand. The software was released under the GPL at the suggestion of Katipo in the hopes that it would be widely adopted and extended.