[ Joseph, by Ccing me, you're demonstrating just how well you're reading my mail before replying. There was a nice `Please don't Cc me' at the top of my previous mail. Please, pretty please with a cherry on top, be so kind as not to this time, if you reply. ]
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 11:48:29AM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > > And yet there are two attempts out there to write a free ICQ server. The > > > specs are published. Nobody has released one yet but so what? > > > > > > If the protocol is published the lack of a free server AT THE MOMENT > > > should not penalize the software. > > > > Blah. If a program, foobar, is linked against the non-free libevil, > > it goes in contrib. The fact that someone is planning, writing or > > even thinking about writing a libgood DFSG replacement for libevil, > > does *not* mean we put foobar in the main. In the same way the fact > > that there is _currently_ no free server is all that matters. > > Server != library. There is no linking. There is no requirement to use > it with a non-free server. Hello? No requirement? What, pray tell, does one do with TiK if one doesn't connect to a server (non-free)? I'd say the necessity to connect to the server before one can do what the majority of users would do with TiK is a requirement. > I ask you again, is a perl script which reads freshmeat only good enough > for contrib because scoop hasn't published sources to his CGIs? Do you think it would be so much of a problem to convince him to? But I've said it before, and I'll say it again (just for you, because I know you have trouble reading what you're replying to), I don't care how much or what software this affects. -- James
