[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:34:25PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > > We have to at least move it to the contribs (I say at least because it
> > > falls into the commercial app category (as being a shareware) so it must
> > > go theorically in the commercial CD's).
> >
> > That be to harsh IMHO. The author is fair enough to provide the source code
> > free of charge, and his license is quite fair, again IMHO. Contrib is good
> > enough, but at least get it of the GPL (!!) CDs, because it ain't GPL.
>
> Not that I want to start a license war...
>
well ... ;p
> Neither is Apache, Netscape, and a host of other packages. Not being
> GPL'd should not be a bar from being on the main distribution.
no, be not being open source, aka not following debian guideline can be.
apache is free, netscape is not, nor is xv.
> Pragmatism falls in line with functionality and some of us like XV, it's
> very reliable, unlike some of the others I have seen. It is the reason I
> keep using it.
i really don't the point for xv, open yours eyes and you'll see a whole bunch of
*good* xv replacements. xv should be removed because it is shareware.
(replacements: ImageMagick, ee, eog, gqview, pixie, gimp, all fully working)
