On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:35:56 -0500 Keith Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By the way, is there some reason Debian can't adopt the Libranet > installer and tweak it for the Debain defaults intead of the Libranet > defaults? The installer is very nice. Libranet is a commercial distro (and a very good one too - it's what I use). Anyway, the installer and configuration utilities are the property of the owners, so Debian can't simply adopt it without permission. The free version 2.0 that you downloaded is free because the Libranet owners have generously chosen to make it so (presumably, to encourage you to eventually purchase the newer version 2.7, or the upcoming 2.8). However, just because 2.0 is available free doesn't mean that it was released under the GPL, as Debian is. Also, I would presume that Libranet hasn't released the source code for their installer, since they are not required to (under the GPL, you are obliged to release the source code). You can, of course, continue to upgrade your Libranet installation with apt-get. I'm not real sure what happens when you mix and match programs from gcc 2.95 with binaries that were compiled under gcc 3.2. Maybe someone else more technically astute can answer that. I understand that Debian will be adopting a new graphical installer in the future, but I don't know the details. - Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
