On 2010-05-30, brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx wrote:
The difference is that those tools provide a reasonable level of
functionality with free data. Weather information is in the public
domain because there's no originality to it. Most programs that display
lyrics or album
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Philipp Kern tr...@philkern.de wrote:
On 2010-05-30, brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx wrote:
The difference is that those tools provide a reasonable level of
functionality with free data. Weather information is in the public
domain because
Il giorno lun, 31/05/2010 alle 09.27 -0300, Fernando Lemos ha scritto:
xmame-sdl is in contrib, though. I find it hard to draw the line
between main and contrib unless there's non-free depends, it's all
very subjective.
xmame-sdl is in non-free, IIRC.
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On 05/31/2010 12:54 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On dim., 2010-05-30 at 21:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
Clamz just moves some bits from Point A to Point B.
I hope you don't use this as a definition of dfsg-free?
Hardly.
My (possibly flawed) thinking was originally raised here:
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 07:03:16AM +0200, sean finney wrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:40:48PM +, brian m. carlson wrote:
The difference is that those tools provide a reasonable level of
functionality with free data. Weather information is in the public
domain because there's no
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:13:51PM +, brian m. carlson wrote:
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 07:03:16AM +0200, sean finney wrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:40:48PM +, brian m. carlson wrote:
The difference is that those tools provide a reasonable level of
functionality with free data.
On 31.05.2010 19:55, Michael Banck wrote:
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:13:51PM +, brian m. carlson wrote:
I'll bite. amavis and spamassassin handle emails, and there are in fact
emails that are free. CVS commit emails for free software projects are
a great example of this.
What
Michael Banck mba...@debian.org writes:
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:13:51PM +, brian m. carlson wrote:
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 07:03:16AM +0200, sean finney wrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:40:48PM +, brian m. carlson wrote:
The difference is that those tools provide a reasonable
On 30.05.2010 23:40, brian m. carlson wrote:
A very similar software is already in Debian main:
Amarok contains two plugins that are able to download/stream
music from Magnatune and MP3tunes; both are music stores.
Amarok also plays music quite well without those. I never use Magnatune
In retrospect, I probably could have used a better word than
difference. What I meant is that the package in question (clamz) is
not in the same category as amarok. There can be legitimate debate on
the issue for one, and no reasonable disagreement on the other.
Dear all,
for the record,
Philipp Kern wrote:
Console emulators like zsnes are in main, I think because there used to be
at least one free ROM it can be used with (be it useful or not).
It would probably be more consistent with clamz having been accepted into
main, to not require that emulators have a free rom in order
Felix Geyer dijo [Sat, May 29, 2010 at 09:14:56PM +0200]:
clamz [1] has been rejected from Debian NEW [2] some time ago.
The FTP assistent that processed the package was of the
opinion that it belongs to contrib instead of main because it's
only useful to download non-free content.
The
On 05/29/2010 09:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 19:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/29/2010 03:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 21:14 +0200, Felix Geyer wrote:
clamz [1] has been rejected from Debian NEW [2] some time ago.
The FTP assistent that processed
On 30 May 2010 04:47, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote:
I think the policy being applied is that if a package is only useful in
conjunction with non-free data, it belongs in contrib (just as if it
depends on some non-free library).
I see a potential problem with this policy:
say I
* Luca Niccoli lultimou...@gmail.com [2010-05-30 14:31]:
I see a potential problem with this policy:
say I write a DFSG-compliant media player, and I want to add the
ability to download songs from Amazon; I then depend on clamz.
But clamz is in contrib, so my media player must go into
On 30 May 2010 16:56, Martin Wuertele m...@debian.org wrote:
You could suggest clamz und detect runtime if it is present. That would
allow your package to go in main and still use the funtionality of clamz
in case it was installed.
Sure; what I wanted to point out (and I probably wasn't clear
On 30.05.2010 04:47, Ben Hutchings wrote:
I think the policy being applied is that if a package is only useful in
conjunction with non-free data, it belongs in contrib (just as if it
depends on some non-free library).
Many applications use downloaded non-free content.
For example
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 08:09:52PM +0200, Felix Geyer wrote:
On 30.05.2010 04:47, Ben Hutchings wrote:
I think the policy being applied is that if a package is only useful in
conjunction with non-free data, it belongs in contrib (just as if it
depends on some non-free library).
Many
On 05/30/2010 04:40 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 08:09:52PM +0200, Felix Geyer wrote:
On 30.05.2010 04:47, Ben Hutchings wrote:
I think the policy being applied is that if a package is only useful in
conjunction with non-free data, it belongs in contrib (just as if it
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:40:48PM +, brian m. carlson wrote:
The difference is that those tools provide a reasonable level of
functionality with free data. Weather information is in the public
domain because there's no originality to it. Most programs that display
lyrics or album covers
On dim., 2010-05-30 at 21:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
Clamz just moves some bits from Point A to Point B.
I hope you don't use this as a definition of dfsg-free?
Cheers,
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clamz [1] has been rejected from Debian NEW [2] some time ago.
The FTP assistent that processed the package was of the
opinion that it belongs to contrib instead of main because it's
only useful to download non-free content.
The purpose of clamz is to download MP3 files after buying them
from
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 21:14 +0200, Felix Geyer wrote:
clamz [1] has been rejected from Debian NEW [2] some time ago.
The FTP assistent that processed the package was of the
opinion that it belongs to contrib instead of main because it's
only useful to download non-free content.
The purpose
On 05/29/2010 03:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 21:14 +0200, Felix Geyer wrote:
clamz [1] has been rejected from Debian NEW [2] some time ago.
The FTP assistent that processed the package was of the
opinion that it belongs to contrib instead of main because it's
only useful
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 19:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/29/2010 03:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 21:14 +0200, Felix Geyer wrote:
clamz [1] has been rejected from Debian NEW [2] some time ago.
The FTP assistent that processed the package was of the
opinion that it
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote:
I think the policy being applied is that if a package is only useful in
conjunction with non-free data, it belongs in contrib (just as if it
depends on some non-free library).
Should I move libwww-topica-perl to
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote:
I think the policy being applied is that if a package is only useful in
conjunction with non-free data, it belongs in contrib (just as if it
depends on some non-free library).
Should I move libwww-topica-perl to contrib?
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