Re: Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-28 Thread Ed Hill
Hi Michael and Justin, Thank you for your help! I've submitted a bug (#359707) and will follow its progress. Ed -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PRO

Re: Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-27 Thread Frank Küster
Ed Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm asking because the main upstream author (Michael Jennings) seems to >> think that the Fedora Guidelines (which are in some ways quite similar >> to the much-older DSC) are "silly rules which discriminate against >> packages for no real reason": >> >> ht

Re: Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-27 Thread Michael Poole
Ed Hill writes: > On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 23:10 -0500, Michael Poole wrote: > > This kind of licensing conflict is a release-critical bug in the > > package under Debian Policy. The ideal solution for Debian is exactly > > what you suggested in the bug comments: work with the upstream > > maintaine

Re: Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:18:37AM -0500, Ed Hill wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 23:10 -0500, Michael Poole wrote: > > This kind of licensing conflict is a release-critical bug in the > > package under Debian Policy. The ideal solution for Debian is exactly > > what you suggested in the bug commen

Re: Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-27 Thread Ed Hill
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 23:10 -0500, Michael Poole wrote: > This kind of licensing conflict is a release-critical bug in the > package under Debian Policy. The ideal solution for Debian is exactly > what you suggested in the bug comments: work with the upstream > maintainer to sort out license incom

Re: Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-27 Thread Michael Poole
Ed Hill writes: > Hi folks, > > I'm an occasional Debian user and, while doing package reviews for > Fedora Extras, stumbled into the Eterm mix-of-source-licenses situation > described below. > > The following email was sent to the Debian Eterm maintainer. I'm > forwarding it to this list becau

Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-27 Thread Ed Hill
Hi folks, I'm an occasional Debian user and, while doing package reviews for Fedora Extras, stumbled into the Eterm mix-of-source-licenses situation described below. The following email was sent to the Debian Eterm maintainer. I'm forwarding it to this list because I've not (yet) received a res