Re: A packaging scheme...

1999-09-29 Thread Seth M. Landsman
Okay, having said this won't be a debian requirement, I'm much more comfortable discussing this at its merits, instead of arguing against unnecessary incompatibility. On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:00:13PM -0500, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 01:08:22PM

Re: A packaging scheme...

1999-09-29 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 11:39:51AM -0500, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 10:58:53AM -0400, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > > Umm, please don't. This would be wonderful if all systems were > > debian and hetrogenius. However, what happens when I try to use

Re: A packaging scheme...

1999-09-29 Thread Seth M. Landsman
> Instead of org.gnu.regex.Regex you might have lgpl.regex.Regex. The > nice thing being that you wouldn't see anything in lgpl.* linking in > something from gpl.*, because that would break the license. There are > some disadvantages, obviously, but the process of linking is tightly > coupled with

Re: jdk1.2

1999-08-12 Thread Seth M. Landsman
Okay, so there is a lot of dicussion about not being able to redistribute the jdk1.2 because of facist licensing by Sun. However, this isn't a unique case, is it? Netscape and realplayer, at least, both have this *SAME ISSUE*, as well as ezmlm and qmail, I believe. The work around is an