USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-10 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi. I am a novice Debian package maintainer, in the queue for becoming an official developer. I am maintaining a package called althea, which is an IMAP email client for GTK+. They have recently added support for SSL through linking to libssl (from OpenSSL). This is configurable based on the values

Re: request was dead horse limping...

2001-05-10 Thread Sam TH
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:15:19PM -0400, James Miller wrote: > In fairness to Sergio, I think his point was that though he might not > want to take Debian to court other bad actors might and could. Would > this discussion have developed differently had it been IBM's legal > inquiring rather than

re: request was dead horse limping...

2001-05-10 Thread James Miller
In fairness to Sergio, I think his point was that though he might not want to take Debian to court other bad actors might and could. Would this discussion have developed differently had it been IBM's legal inquiring rather than Sergio? :) Can't help be reminded of the problems Slashdot had with

Re: request

2001-05-10 Thread David Starner
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:33:46AM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > A friend of yours has mentioned that Debian charges 1000$ for each > SPAM mail. Assuming this is correct and that no other prices are > given, this may easily imply that this is indeed Debian's own > cost/value per mail. A c

Re: request

2001-05-10 Thread Sam TH
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:33:46AM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > > So far, only James Miller and Florian Lohoff have shown a correct > > reading of this discussion. An explicit OpenContent agreement is > > indeed the way to go. > > I forgot to mention Sam TH, whose contribution bas

Re: request

2001-05-10 Thread Sergio Brandano
> So far, only James Miller and Florian Lohoff have shown a correct > reading of this discussion. An explicit OpenContent agreement is > indeed the way to go. I forgot to mention Sam TH, whose contribution basically says that *if* Debian has the right to keep an archive of a posted mail (

Re: lame

2001-05-10 Thread Brian Ristuccia
You Wrote: > > this is my first message, i hope it's appropriate. there's talk going > on on the users mailing list about lame and its absence from the > package tree. i would like to adopt the lame mp3 encoder as a debian > package and was wondering if there are any objections? is there > already