Hi, From: Thomas Schoepf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Debian sponsor Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:29:14 +0200
schoepf> on http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/ I saw that you're schoepf> looking for a sponsor and maybe I can help you. Thanks! Sorry for late reply. schoepf> You wrote that the maintainer of mmm and ocamltk, Christophe Le Bars, lost schoepf> interest in them. Did he write you an email? We've talked about it in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would you check ML archive? (It was in September, I think) Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> also said he was willing to maintain it, but we met some difficulties and now he's gone for vacation... 1) License problem I thought the INRIA license is compliant with DFSG, but some people in [EMAIL PROTECTED] said the license is not clear enough to ensure the creation of binaries from modified source. I've sent an e-mail to INRIA to ask them about it, but don't get any reply yet... Could you possibly ask them? I can't read or write in French, so I don't understand what they say at www.inria.fr(English page was not available at that time). the license seems to be translated from French, so the meaning might be different from the original one. 2) Tcl/Tk problem I used Japanized Tcl/Tk to build those packages, so eventually they depend on tcl8.0-ja/tk8.0-ja. Since it's impossible to make them depend on tcl/tk8.0-ja AND tcl/tk8.0, the only way we can do now is those damn forking...I mean, we'll have to provide mmm, mmm-ja, ocamltk80 and ocamltk80-ja for Japanese support. Well, I don't think it's good idea, but that's the way it is... I've heard Tcl/Tk 8.2 tried but failed to support Japanese(and other multibyte characters). Maybe we should talk with Tcl/Tk(and Tcl-ja/Tk-ja) maintainers. I'm trying to solve these situations, but it's kinda tough for me. Any ideas? IMHO MMM is still one of the finest Web browsers, so I'm very glad if you or Torsten take it. I'm ready to help you. Cheers, MH -- Masayuki Hatta The University of Tokyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
