On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > Hi all, > > we stopped the maintainer database due the non-free part; > boot-floppies has changed to the free part for sgml; > > And the debian www pages? > > wml depends on libgd-perl, and this is non-free: > > ramses:~# apt-get install libgd-perl > Updating package status cache...done > Checking system integrity...ok > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libgd-perl > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 67.4k of archives. After unpacking 315k will be used. > Get ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk unstable/non-free libgd-perl [67.4k] > Fetched 67.4k in 24s (2723b/s) > > > Is it possible not to use GD.pm from the libgd-perl package or that > the maintainer switch to GPL?
I thought that GD was non-free simply for what it does (draw gifs - it uses the patented compression). Since the web pages don't actually *use* GD, I don't see this as a problem. (Sure, it's a little irritating to have to install a non-free package, but you're not actually using it, I don't think). Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
