Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package Submission

2007-06-27 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hi Zach, On Wednesday 27 June 2007 03:44:21 Zachary Palmer wrote: > Hey, all. I *think* I have a working submission for the contrib section > of Debian mainline; this is the [EMAIL PROTECTED] download-and-install > wrapper that I was discussing a couple days ago. I'm rather new at > this, so I do

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package Submission

2007-06-27 Thread Laszlo Gabor Liszi
Zachary Palmer wrote: Hey, all. I *think* I have a working submission for the contrib section of Debian mainline; this is the [EMAIL PROTECTED] download-and-install wrapper that I was discussing a couple days ago. I'm rather new at this, so I don't know exactly how I should proceed. What is

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package Submission

2007-06-26 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zachary Palmer wrote: > I'm rather new at this, so I don't know exactly how I should proceed. > What is the process for screening my package? > Is this the appropriate mailing list to discuss the matter? The debian-mentors list is probably a better

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Package Submission

2007-06-26 Thread Zachary Palmer
Hey, all. I *think* I have a working submission for the contrib section of Debian mainline; this is the [EMAIL PROTECTED] download-and-install wrapper that I was discussing a couple days ago. I'm rather new at this, so I don't know exactly how I should proceed. What is the process for screen

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-24 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 05:51:29PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > As I understood it, the idea was more to keep information *comparable*, > which wouldn't be the case if someone "improved" the script by using a > faster minimizer, linking against an improved libfoo or whatever. You > simply cannot

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-24 Thread Frank Küster
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le vendredi 22 juin 2007 à 14:20 -0400, Zachary Palmer a écrit : >> This software package has pretty much the best reason for >> being closed source that I've encountered; they want to prevent >> falsified results from damaging the research. > > This

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 22 juin 2007 à 14:20 -0400, Zachary Palmer a écrit : > This software package has pretty much the best reason for > being closed source that I've encountered; they want to prevent > falsified results from damaging the research. This is probably one of the worst excuses I could find. T

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Em Sáb, 2007-06-23 às 12:59 +0100, Chris Lamb escreveu: > Charles Plessy wrote: > > > as said in another mail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is definitely non-free. Hovever, > > if Debian would become an "authorized distributor", the licence would be > > suitable for non-free. > > What about Debian derivativ

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > Has there been any talk about moving to the BOINC infrastructure? There used to be work on a BOINC [EMAIL PROTECTED] client, but this work has stopped due to personnel turnover. See: http://fah

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Chris Lamb
Charles Plessy wrote: > as said in another mail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is definitely non-free. Hovever, > if Debian would become an "authorized distributor", the licence would be > suitable for non-free. What about Debian derivatives? /Lamby -- Chris Lamb, Leamington Spa, UK

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't update its client regularly. The release cycle is > possibly > slower than Debian Stable. There has been talk of v6 for several years > now, and I think that version just recently went into alpha testing if > it made it that far (I'm no long

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Plessy wrote: > Distribution of this software is prohibited. It may only be > obtained by downloading from Stanford's web site > (http://folding.stanford.edu and pages linked therein). > > I guess that in that case, there would be a lin

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 02:20:33PM -0400, Zachary Palmer a écrit : > Hello, all. It has been my understanding that the reason that the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] distributed computing software has not been made a Debian > package is that the license under which it is released does not allow it > to be

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-22 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle venerdì 22 giugno 2007, Zachary Palmer ha scritto: > Hello, all. It has been my understanding that the reason that the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] distributed computing software has not been made a Debian > package is that the license under which it is released does not allow it > to be free. No, it

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 02:20:33PM -0400, Zachary Palmer wrote: > Hello, all. It has been my understanding that the reason that the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] distributed computing software has not been made a Debian > package is that the license under which it is released does not allow it > to be fr

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-22 Thread Zachary Palmer
Hello, all. It has been my understanding that the reason that the [EMAIL PROTECTED] distributed computing software has not been made a Debian package is that the license under which it is released does not allow it to be free. This software package has pretty much the best reason for being cl