Bug#27137: REJECTED] Clarification of non-free: packages encouraging donations with claims about non-donation

2000-07-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On 04-Jul-00, 18:05 (CDT), Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So are people happy with changing the wording of the last two lines to > read: > >otherwise they must go in non-free. > FWIW, I'm happy with that. steve greenland

Bug#66023: PROPOSAL] Treat plugins and shared libraries differently

2000-07-06 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 03:35:08PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 06:14:17PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > I propose prepending text like the following to section 4.3. > > > > Shared libraries are .so files containing compiled > > code that are loaded by th

Bug#27137: REJECTED] Clarification of non-free: packages encouraging donations with claims about non-donation

2000-07-06 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 01:21:57PM +0100, Mark Baker wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:42:37PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > You wrote: > > > > >Programs whose authors encourage the user to make donations are fine > > >for the main distribution, provided that the authors do not claim t

Bug#65577: Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is not a part of Debian distribution

2000-07-06 Thread Brian Mays
> Do you think that "All the packages in the other sections" should be > also modified to "All the packages in non-free or contrib sections" ? No. Not really. > What I wish to see is more explanation for users. Many ordinary users > are not specialists in license. In many cases, they may not und