"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is more appropriate for debian-devel or debian-mentor > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:02:48AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A few months ago I put together a Debian floppy-maker script for usage > > > on powerpc. The script depends on the MacOS-provided Applescript > > > 'shell' and the scriptable Disk Copy program. The point was made > > > before, that since these MacOS programs are not free (they come with > > > all MacOS distributions), a script depending on them would not be > > > Debian-distributable. > > > > If, for example, you wrote a GPL program for AIX that relied upon > > their version of cc, I don't see how anyone could object: "IBM's > > version of cc isn't GPL'd!" > > the issue is more of: though the floppy-maker script is GPL'd, and DFSG > compliant, it _requires_(depends upon) something that fails the DFSG. > thus, it would have to go into contrib, and cannot be a part of Debian > proper.
Yes, this is a problem. I would suggest putting it at a well-known location and linking to it from the documentation. It also might be possible to put a link to it from http://ww.debian.org/releases/woody or something. We can do all this without including the script into boot-floppies and therefore Debian proper. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
