Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-08 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Do we have the right to deprive users of choices just because > we see no reason to do stuff? Sounds a trifle draconian. Uhm - putting TIK into contrib doesn't "deprive users of choices", it only slims down main

Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-08 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I ask you again, is a perl script which reads freshmeat only good enough >for contrib because scoop hasn't published sources to his CGIs? Hu? You don't access Freshmeat over the free protocol HTTP? Funny. To be specific: a

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-10-28 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After that it is not terribly bad.. But definately not something I would >wish on someone who does not understand mail. Uhm - someone who doesn't understand mail shouldn't fiddle around with _any_ MTA. Far to dangerous. S

Re: changes and standards documents

1998-08-13 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Hands) wrote: >I licence all my own code under a DFSG compliant licence, how can I ever get >shafted by the licences ? You can't like a GPL library to a BSD program and keept that resulting program under BSD license, for example. Both lic