Dear Klaus, I think that PPower4 is an excellent piece of software that I use regularly to generate presentations in my Debian GNU/Linux system.
As a result, I tried to package it for added convenience, since it seems to work flawlessly with recent versions of kaffe and sablevm (contrary to what is said in the PPower4 homepage -- it perhaps wasn't updated in the last few months). The package that I have now is available at <http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/debian/>. Anyway, as a requirement for the package being considered to be included in Debian, its sources must be provided and I couldn't find the sources at <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ppower4/download.html>, even though the code seems to be licensed under the GPL. So, I would like to know if you could put the source code on-line so that I could try to see if building and packaging it with Free tools is possible now and, perhaps, have it included in Debian. Below is a brief comment of one of the discussions that I had with people on Debian mailing lists: On Oct 29 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote: > Whoah. So there's no source code? Presumably your package is going > in non-free then? The jar file distributed by upstream contains GPL > code (GNU getopt) without source, so it probably isn't distributable > even in non-free. > > However, according to the ppower4 web site: > > The post processing software is written in Java and it is free > (refer to the GNU general public license). > > You might want to ask the author for the source since it's apparently GPLed. > > Cameron. Thanks in advance, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Please keep me on the Cc: lists, if possible. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogério Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
