Re: Bug#290362: www.debian.org: Please add Root to list of programs that cannot be packaged

2005-01-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Sam Watkins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:09:41PM -0500, Kevin McCarty wrote: > >> the software contains what appears to be code derived from cernlib >> (GPL) [3] and Xclass (LGPL) [4] while having a license incompatible >> with either. > > They likely are allowed to use cernlib, however x

Re: Bug#290362: www.debian.org: Please add Root to list of programs that cannot be packaged

2005-01-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Sam Watkins wrote: > I wrote to them just now, and Fons said: > >> Hi Sam, >> >> we are in the process of removing the single non OS limitation from our >> license in the very near future (coming months/weeks). The xclass derived >> work is solely contained in one single library libGui. The au

Re: Bug#290362: www.debian.org: Please add Root to list of programs that cannot be packaged

2005-01-20 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:05:10AM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > I read the threads you linked to above, but I couldn't find a reference > to anybody explaining the ROOT guys what the problem is. Did anybody > try, what was their response? I wrote to them just now, and Fons said: > Hi Sam, > >

Re: Bug#290362: www.debian.org: Please add Root to list of programs that cannot be packaged

2005-01-20 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:09:41 -0500 Kevin McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are two problems: first, the license [1] forbids redistribution > of modified binaries without permission of the authors, which some > have argued makes it unsuitable even for non-free [2]; second, and > worse, the

Re: Bug#290362: www.debian.org: Please add Root to list of programs that cannot be packaged

2005-01-19 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:09:41PM -0500, Kevin McCarty wrote: > Could someone please add Root (http://root.cern.ch/) to the list of software > that cannot be packaged, http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package > the software contains what appears to be code derived from cernlib > (GPL) [

Bug#290362: www.debian.org: Please add Root to list of programs that cannot be packaged

2005-01-13 Thread Kevin McCarty
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hello, Could someone please add Root (http://root.cern.ch/) to the list of software that cannot be packaged, http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package ? There have been several attempts at ITPs: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/1999/12/m