Bug#504575: ITP: libtemplate-plugin-dbi-perl -- DBI plugin for the Template Toolkit

2008-11-05 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtemplate-plugin-dbi-perl Version : 2.64 Upstream Author : Andrew Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-DBI/ * License : Dual GPL/

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-11-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-10-30 09:35:32, schrieb Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo: > A good solution would be to improve the free/libre software available in > Debian, since you seem to claim that SDCC is an option as a development > tool to this said micro-controller. Is it a 8051? Yes, several of my projects use th

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-05 Thread David Given
Robert Collins wrote: [...] > I wish I understood the reasoning here - putting aside the fact that > most of the software in Debian is under a copyleft licence and so we > *must* provide the source. Why is the source for the radio on my wifi > card any *less* critical than the source for the driver

Bug#504631: ITP: speutils -- Thread management and message passing utils for linux on cell BE / playstation 3

2008-11-05 Thread sean finney
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package name: speutils Version : (see below) Upstream Author : Kristian Jerpetjøn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://code.google.com/p/speutils/ Li

Bug#504634: ITP: spu-medialib -- collection of image/video accellerators for Cell BE / Playstation 3

2008-11-05 Thread sean finney
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package name: spu-medialib Version : (see below) Upstream Author : Kristian Jerpetjøn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://code.google.com/p/spu-medial

Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-05 Thread Ean Schuessler
I'm here at ApacheCon with Simon Phipps and he said that Sun would be "delighted to help Debian resolve the RPC licensing problems". He wanted to note that the Free Software Definition did not exist at the time when Sun released to the community and they couldn't have predicted that it would vi

Re: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-05 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:32:35PM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: > I'm here at ApacheCon with Simon Phipps and he said that Sun would be > "delighted to help Debian resolve the RPC licensing problems". He wanted to > note that the Free Software Definition did not exist at the time when Sun > rele

Re: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:32:35PM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: > I'm here at ApacheCon with Simon Phipps and he said that Sun would be > "delighted to help Debian resolve the RPC licensing problems". He > wanted to note that the Free Software Definition did not exist at the > time when Sun release

Re: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-05 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "Michael Banck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assuming Sun is the sole copyright holder of that code, he could advise > their IP laywers/whoever to relicense the code; either to the glibc > license (LGPL-1.2 or later, currently), or perhaps the BSD license. The > latter would probably be bes

Re: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:07:07PM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: > > Assuming Sun is the sole copyright holder of that code, he could advise > > their IP laywers/whoever to relicense the code; either to the glibc > > license (LGPL-1.2 or later, currently), or perhaps the BSD license. The > > latter

Re: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-05 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "Michael Banck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The code is copyrighted by Sun, not some particular employee, so AFAICT > digging up who wrote it will not be necessary. Please understand that asking Sun to relicense source is a little like asking Debian to hurry up and release Lenny. Differen

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-05 Thread Faidon Liambotis
David Given wrote: > One potential reason is that in most jurisdictions you are legally *not > allowed* to use custom wifi firmware. Consider that most wifi systems > are software radios and that the software is entirely capable of > exceeding all regulators' transmissions strength limits or subver