"tom hull" wrote:
>dear debian-developers,
>
>i've written a freeware package, an awk-like script programming language.
>it was originally developed for file tree search/maintenance applications,
>so i called it "ftwalk". a more awk-like mode also exists, called "hawk". it
>has a rich type system, scads of built-in functions, etc. it does pretty muc
>h
>everything perl does, except of course it doesn't have millions of users or
>their libraries. it can be used interactively, like a super-calculator. it c
>omes
>with full on-line doc, and there is a huge postscript file that you can prin
>t
>out. i even have an o'reilly-like pocket guide. it has been ported to severa
>l
>unix systems (linux, irix, solaris, ultrix, aix).
>
>the problem is: nobody has heard of ftwalk, nobody uses it, and i've grown
>weary of trying to do it all myself. but i still think it's too good to just
>walk
>away from, so please take a look at it. let me know what you think. and if
>you have any interest in helping to work on it, i'm game for at least one mo
>re
>release. please take a look at:
>
> http://www.contex.com/ftwalk
>
>thanks. you can write me back at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It looks nice, and I would package it for Debian if you don't want to do so,
but I'm not entirely sure that the license conforms to Debian policy. Why
not just use GPL 2? WIll it make any practical difference to you?
(For other readers, this is the licence:
SOFTWARE LICENSE FOR FTWALK
PREAMBLE
The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a Package
(Ftwalk) may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder (Tom Hull, unless
stated otherwise) maintains some semblance of artistic control over the
development of the Package, while giving the users of the Package the right
to use and distribute the Package in more-or-less customary fashion, plus
the right to make reasonable modifications.
This License is similar to (modified from) the "Artistic License" that Perl
is distributed with.
DEFINITIONS:
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Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created through
textual modification.
"Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been
modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes of
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"Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights
for the Package.
"You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this
Package.
"Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the basis of
media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on.
(You will not be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but
only to the computing community at large as a market that must bear
the fee.)
"Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item itself,
though there may be fees involved in handling the item. It also means
that recipients of the item may redistribute it under the same conditions
they received it.
LICENSE TERMS:
1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you
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