Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-12 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 01:48:43PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: James A. Treacy wrote: A number of people would like to see a 3dfx package of mesa. This can not be done unless there is a legal package of glide (under the current license I can't even get the libs since I don't own a 3dfx

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-12 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 01:48:43PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: Any reason, aside from the lack of volunteers, why we can't do what we do with netscape/staroffice/etc.? Even if we can't distribute it, can't we have a loader package? (No, I'm not volunteering, I don't own a 3dfx card either.)

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-11 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 04:48:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This proprietary commercial software and if it is on any Debian servers it must be removed *immediately*. No waiting to see if they might change the license. It must be removed *now*. A number of people would like to see a

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-11 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 04:48:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If nobody wants to take up this torch I'm going to suggest the existing package be dropped from the distribution. If anybody _does_ want to try to deal with this, please let me know. New license: ...

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-11 Thread Roderick Schertler
On 10 Oct 1998 16:48:44 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This proprietary commercial software and if it is on any Debian servers it must be removed *immediately*. It is as if you ignored the explanatory part of the message and just read the license. That wasn't useful. I know the license

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-11 Thread Edward Betts
On Sat, 10 Oct, 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roderick Schertler writes: If nobody wants to take up this torch I'm going to suggest the existing package be dropped from the distribution. If anybody _does_ want to try to deal with this, please let me know. New license:

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-11 Thread john
Edward Betts writes: This is a new licence on a new version that has NOT been uploaded. That was not clear to me. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-11 Thread Chris Waters
James A. Treacy wrote: A number of people would like to see a 3dfx package of mesa. This can not be done unless there is a legal package of glide (under the current license I can't even get the libs since I don't own a 3dfx card). Any reason, aside from the lack of volunteers, why we can't

intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-10 Thread Roderick Schertler
The Glide library is a mess. It's non-free and no source is available. As distributed by the upstream author you get a library called libglide2x.so, with no embedded soname. I had packaged up an old version of this library. I went to update the package and I found that the situation has gotten

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-10 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 11:21:12 -0500, Zed Pobre [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: libglide-voodoo: Provides: libglide Conflicts: libglide, libglide-voodoo2, libglide-voodoorush libglide-voodoo2: Provides: libglide Conflicts: libglide, libglide-voodoo,

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Roderick == Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roderick RESTRICTIONS: You may not: 1. Sublicense the Materials; Roderick 2. Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Roderick enclosed software; 3. Use the Materials for for any Roderick platform or products other

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-10 Thread Roderick Schertler
On 10 Oct 1998 13:14:17 -0700, Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [license elided] This is *so* non-free it can't even go on our FTP site. You can't make copies of the materials other than for back-up purposes. I know, that's exactly what I said in my message. I was asking if anybody

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-10 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 01:14:17PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Roderick RESTRICTIONS: You may not: 1. Sublicense the Materials; Roderick 2. Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Roderick enclosed software; 3. Use the Materials for for any Roderick platform or

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-10 Thread john
Roderick Schertler writes: If nobody wants to take up this torch I'm going to suggest the existing package be dropped from the distribution. If anybody _does_ want to try to deal with this, please let me know. New license: ... ... This proprietary commercial software and if