ow, it is only 314
> > lines of code, 153 of which are lists of FC2 packages, so it doesn't
> > seem likely to share any common ancestry with debootstrap.
>
> I have just been given permission to post the original internal tool
> used at Progeny which rpmstrap is based upon,
is the proper forum for exactly that type
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th Qt;
3) A GPL'ed clone of Qt could be developed.
Eventually, TrollTech AS adopted the first solution (Qt Free Edition is
dual-licensed under the QPL and the GPL). In the meantime, some people
adopted approach 2, like libapt-pkg, and an abortive attempt at 3 was
made (the Harmony proj
mage Gallery System.)
Please upload ASAP. :)
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employing a copyleft, I wonder just for
the sake of intellectual curiosity why he didn't use the GNU GPL.
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ogram for libexif that I package and
> which is used by a few other software including gphoto2 and gtkam.
Rockin'. Thanks for packaging this.
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>
> Ugh. Since when does the developer's reference recommend this? The
> article most definitely belongs...
It doesn't. The period at the end doesn't belong either, and neither
does the first comma.
Description: audio player for geeks,
tion unless a proper
noun, proper adjective, abbreviation, or acronym requires it
* I don't know what GNU/autoconf is. Is that like GNU/Linux?
* short description still doesn't help people who don't know what
autoconf is
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:27:20PM +0100, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> * Package name: elfutils
[...]
> * License : OSL 1.0
What's that? Shouldn't -legal have a look at it?
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s sounds interesting; I look forward to trying it out!
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and as we all know, the Debian
Social Contract refers only to "software", not "patented technology",
and since the Debian Free Software Guidelines therefore do not apply,
"patented technology" is perfectly acceptable for inclusion in the
Debian GNU
ferent formats, given a tex file.
Please do not make ITP announcements without describing what license the
software is under.
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are MIT'ish
Description : X file and application manager
Source: xfm
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Build-Depends: xlibs-dev, xaw3dg-dev, debhelper (>= 3.0.0)
Standards-Version: 3.5.6
Package: xfm
Architecture: any
Depends: ${
or map rendering tool for X
Source: xrmap
Section: science
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Build-Depends: xlibs-dev, zlib1g-dev | libz-dev, xutils, debhelper (>= 3.0.0)
Standards-Version: 3.5.6
Package: xrmap
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Desc
verity 113360 wishlist
thanks
Bored now."
Clearly not a very productive exchange. Apparently the package is never
to be accepted into Debian, and the FTP admins have not explained why.
Disadvantages:
I can't think of any.
Comments? WNPP guys, what do you think?
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governor of New York in the early 19th century and a major proponent of
canal digging. Then the railroads came along. Oh well.
(Most states in the U.S. have a town or city named Clinton, and it's
usually named for DeWitt.)
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also for the zope-book which is written by the same
> authors
> in the same series.
Please ensure that the license does not use either of the optional parts
of the OPL, or the package will have to go into non-free.
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:21:38AM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > Please ensure that the license does not use either of the optional parts
> > of the OPL, or the package will have to go into non-free.
> I hop
other than copyright law to stop people from
exercising their freedoms under the DFSG risks having their software
dropped from Debian or moved to an archive server where such harassment
is less feasible (for instance, U.S. crypto export regulations).
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tion : access the X selection buffer from the command line
Rockin'. Thanks for packaging this. I've been wanting something like
this for a long time. If $DISPLAY is unset, does it assume that it's
":0" and try anyway? Most people are too lazy and/or forgetf
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:51:38AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:32:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-11
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > * Package name
Source: pgi
Section: admin
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 3.0.0), docbook-xml, docbook-dsssl,
docbook-to-man, jade, opensp, html2text
Standards-Version: 3.5.6
Package: pgi
Architecture: i386 ia64
Depends: libdigest-md5-pe
t Window Manager
lwm - Lightweight Window Manager
ratpoison - Simple window manager with no fat library dependencies.
wm2 - Small, unconfigurable window manager
(and some would say all of the *twm's qualify as well).
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illegal usage of third-party software under
> zsnes.
Can I suggest using the word "unlicensed" instead of "illegal" in the text
above? It's more precise, and it doesn't throw the usual sop to the media
conglomerates that copying their data is as bad as rape, mu
;t tell that to the English...
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Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2002-09-16
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: libtwofish0
Version : 0.2
Upstream Author : Niels Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.macfergus.com/niels/code/TwofishClib.html
* License : custom DFSG-free, G
o be relegated to non-free (I'll remove the offending files before
> doing that).
Unfortunately, unless you can get Sun to extend a transferrable license,
you'll either have to remove the files or move the package to non-free.
> Anyway, thanks in advance for your advice!
Sorry
lawyerly parsing of your original license
discouraged him from doing so.
I encourage Magnus Ekdahl or any other Debian developer to take a new
look at your software.
That's an impressive website, by the way. :)
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> * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
When filing ITPs, please fill in as many of the above fields as
possible.
It would be good to know the license, in particular.
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X, etc.)
> Description : Linux Test Project - stress testing the Linux kernel
It would be good to know what license this package uses.
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have questions about the DFSG-freeness of a license,
you can always ask the debian-legal mailing list.
Determining these things in advance saves the archive administrators a
little bit of time and effort when processing new packages.
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LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
> Description : Session taglib for AxKit
It would be good to know what license this package uses.
The upstream URL would be nice as well; if there isn't one, please
mention the fact.
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LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.
> Description : Tools for handling Ogg media streams
It would be good to know what license this package uses.
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: (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
> Description : A tool to create a bidirectional IP VPN over an HTTP proxy
It would be good to know what license this package uses.
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about the DFSG-freeness of a license,
you can always ask the debian-legal mailing list.
Determining these things in advance saves the archive administrators a
little bit of time and effort when processing new packages.
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On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:49:30PM +0200, martin f. krafft wrote:
> Sorry, left out the following
Please disregard my previous message. :)
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> Description : The PyMOL-Manual (from the website)
(This is the same question I just asked regarding pymol itself.)
Which of the many Python licenses that have been used over the years
applies to pymol?
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> a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox
> (mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation
> decoders.
It would be good to know what license this package uses.
The upstream URL would be nice as well; if there isn't one, pleas
Description : Easy concatenation of postscript-based file formats
When filing ITPs, please fill in as many of the above fields as
possible.
It would be good to know the license, in particular.
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:51:15AM -0600, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> URL: http://search.cpan.org/author/JWALT/Apache-AxKit-Plugin-Session-0.92/
> License: This module is distributed under the same terms as perl itself.
Thanks!
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is an authoritative only, high performance, simple
> and open source name server.
Just out of curioisity, which version of the BSD license does it use?
The GPL-compatible one?
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On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:08:44AM +0100, Ondrej Sury wrote:
> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:17:30PM +0100, Ondrej Sury wrote:
> >> * Package name: nsd
> >> Version : 1.0.2b1
> >> U
ions of the fonts.
I find these two paragraphs superfluous. The first is too preachy, and
the second is redundant except for the font format, which should be
mentioned in the short description instead.
I hope this message helps.
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ith this package?
It's::plainly::obvious::what::this::package::does.Why::don't::you::pull
::your::head::out::and::RTFM::once::in::a::while?
It's::not::like::this::sort::of::jargon::is::difficult::to::understand,::or
::that::writing::package::descriptions::which::rely::entirely::on
from the version 0.9.0, written by Ty Sarna. The current version
> is a modification of the 0.9.0 version by J. David Ibáñez and is
> distributed with the same license.
Yes, this license is known as the 3-clause BSD license. The period is
missing at the end o
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:45:15PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> gngeogui uses GTK for its graphical interface."
Don't forget that (I believe) the official spelling of the library's
name is "GTK+".
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cific enough.
What actual license is used?
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ge descriptions, debconf templates, and other
localized data to the mailing
list before uploading this package. Your grammar could use a little
tweaking, but it's more important that you finish the actual packaging
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ense (BSD without announce)
BSD without announce? Can you elaborate on that, please?
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ising materials mentioning features or
use of this software...") is the one that is dropped.
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fy older signatures done by
> debsigs.
Uh, debsigs has 6 outstanding bugs (3 normal, 3 wishlist), only one of
which is tagged "patch", and it only got that patch 3 days ago -- from
you.
Is there a motivation for "debsigs-ng" apart from impatience?
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> >
> > (750 mails at a very fast rate to a mailinglist with well over 500
> > subscribers, meaning ~400.000 spam-caused autoresponses in half a day),
> > and, see also the opinion of Branden Robinson on this software:
> >
> > http://lists.de
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:06:19PM -0400, Marco Paganini wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:25:54PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
[...]
> >Of course there is protection against it.
[my scheme deleted]
> This is a good idea, and implemented to some degree in ASK. The problem is
>
; and "MORE MAGIC"?
The world has long been awaiting a software interface to such devices.
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:51:28PM +0100, Javier Linares wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> El mié, 14-01-2004 a las 20:28, Branden Robinson escribió:
> > How about support for 1-wire SPDT switches, like those whose positions
> > are "MAGIC" and "MORE MAGIC"?
&g
already included it all on one huge line in the *short*
description. :)
Please fix that. :)
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> * License : own license, somewhat BSD like
Please send this license to the debian-legal list for analysis.
Please quote the entire text of the license when you do so; we don't
mind. :)
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ll I find it ?
I haven't merged the patch yet, but it's on the TODO list[1].
[1] svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/trunk/debian/TODO
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When a message is forwarded through an intermediate\
> server, that intermediate server may need to rewrite the return-path to
...to what?
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[E
c license (or some
> > other free software license) before this is included in Debian.
> >
>
> The upstream author has kindly relicensed under the Clarified Artistic
> Licence.
>
> (Please Cc me on any -legal correspondence, I'm not subscribed).
Thanks for your work
wingly distribute Middleman in contravention of its
license. We would like to distribute Middleman under the terms of its
license, but have found we cannot do so. We look forward to working
with Middleman's author(s) and copyright holder(s) to rectify this
situation.
[1] e.g., if we are pr
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owner 470995 !
thanks
I'll take a crack at this. I'm in pretty frequent contact with Manoj
on Facebook, though we're more often arguing about U.S. politics than
anything to do with Debian or software engineering in general.
He'll be well-situat
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