Re: Version to use in package for a program with non standard versioning

2005-12-30 Thread Nick Lewycky
Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > Stanfords [EMAIL PROTECTED] client is not DFSG-free. Stanford won't release > the source, and you need permission if you wish to write for a 3th party > installer and no one is allowed to distribute the software. AFAIK, thats > the reason why there's no [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Version to use in package for a program with non standard versioning

2005-12-30 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Williams wrote: > I'm not claiming to have an authoritative answer for all this, I'm not a DD > yet. Don't worry, I appreciate all feedback. But I would like to know what a DD has to say about this. > Why is it in contrib then? Just curious rea

Re: Version to use in package for a program with non standard versioning

2005-12-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 30 December 2005 2:40 pm, you wrote: > > You have sorted out the licence problems with qd? It's currently in > > contrib. > > What license problem whould that be? I'm not claiming to have an authoritative answer for all this, I'm not a DD yet. > Dick Howell, the original author, explic

Re: Version to use in package for a program with non standard versioning

2005-12-30 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
> You have sorted out the licence problems with qd? It's currently in contrib. What license problem whould that be? Dick Howell, the original author, explicitly says on his website: "This is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License. There is

Re: Version to use in package for a program with non standard versioning

2005-12-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 30 December 2005 1:40 pm, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > As of November 2005, I've picked up maintainance of qd, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > queue dumper, after it's author passed away in August 2005. So it's a new source package; much as if it had been spun out of kfolding: http://packages.