Bug#249455: djvulibre-bin: gsdjvu available under the CPL

2005-12-27 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I already wrote to ATT only to get a negative response. It may be usefull if you send them a polite note for the same. In view of this impasse you may close the bug if you like. I was under the impression that it is a seperate driver and didn't realise it was in the form of a patch. regards

Bug#249455: djvulibre-bin: gsdjvu available under the CPL

2005-12-27 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
Well right, it is a separate driver. But it is only useful if run as part of gs, which makes them together a single work. So if we ship them together we are in violation of license on gs, which is the GPL. I've already contacted the ATT people as well. And received a similarly polite but

Bug#249455: djvulibre-bin: gsdjvu available under the CPL

2005-12-19 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
Not clear to me that this is okay, since the code is *only* useful as a patch to gs. If you can get a statement from the gs authors that it is okay, that might be satisfactory. Otherwise it seems safer to just continue to whine to ATT about how stupid they are being in licensing a patch using a

Bug#249455: djvulibre-bin: gsdjvu available under the CPL

2005-12-16 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: djvulibre-bin Version: 3.5.14-2 Followup-For: Bug #249455 Hi, gsdjvu is now under the CPL. Couldn't it be possible to make it a seperate package (being GPL incompatible but free according to FSF) ? Are there any such plans. regards b thomas -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1