Re: copyright

1998-09-09 Thread James LewisMoss
> On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 20:29:08 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: George> The problem is GPL is "sticky". ONLY the original author may George> change the license ... I agree (but RMS does not, he says George> once GPL, always GPL but he is not going to enforce it. Th

Re: nv for linux

1998-09-09 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > the library libtk.so.3 > Could anyone tell me where can I find this library and how to install > it?. > > A friend of mine told me that tcl8.0 could be the library that I was > looking for. Tcl8.0 is not the library you want, although you may need it in order for Tk to work. Tk is an X Win

nv for linux

1998-09-09 Thread Raquel Gayete
Hello! I want to install the aplication nv in my PC. I have installed the version Linux 1.3 Now when I try to execute the aplication nv it tells me that it needs the library libtk.so.3 Could anyone tell me where can I find this library and how to install it?. A friend of mine told me that tcl8.0

Re: lintian

1998-09-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 09 Sep 1998, Julian Gilbey wrote: > People keep mentioning lintian. Where can I find it? I looked in > devscripts, but it was not there (even though the package description > mentions a non-existent deblint program). I searched through > Contents-i386 on hamm, with no success. Help?! H

lintian

1998-09-09 Thread Julian Gilbey
People keep mentioning lintian. Where can I find it? I looked in devscripts, but it was not there (even though the package description mentions a non-existent deblint program). I searched through Contents-i386 on hamm, with no success. Help?! Thanks, Julian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: copyright

1998-09-09 Thread Matthew Wilcox
George Bonser [ranting about GPL stickiness snipped] There's a newsgroup for this. gnu.misc.discuss. -- Set Alias$Case Set Alias$[ |MSet Alias$Otherwise Set Alias$[ \ Matthew "" |MSet Alias$When If %0=%%0 Then Set Alias$[ "" ||MIf %0=%%0\ Wilcox Then Set Alias$Otherwise Set Alias$[ |||

Re: linpopup

1998-09-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 07 Sep 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm in the process of packaging linpopup (a winpopup lookalike). It > > > > I've put an initial version of linpopup in ~paul on master, so if anyone > > wants to have a look... > > I've just installed

Re: changing location of .conf files

1998-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
tony mancill wrote: > preinst checks to see if it was called with either "install " > or "upgrade ", which case it will copy whatever the user had > for these conffiles into the new locations (and then remove the old > conffiles? Or let dpkg handle this?) I've done this a couple of times, but I c

changing location of .conf files

1998-09-09 Thread tony mancill
I've been studying the "Debian Packaging Manual" section 6.3, and I want to make sure that I am interpreting it correctly. My package contains a few conffiles which will be changing locations. They are currently: /etc/router.rc /etc/router.conf /usr/lib/router/interfaces/* -> ../../../var/wanpip

Re: copyright

1998-09-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > GPL conflicts with everything ... by design. No, you can not have both. > The GPL specificly states that. > Not true. The original author can release the code under two licenses. Perl for example. > Also, once it is GPL you can never un-GPL it unle

Re: copyright

1998-09-09 Thread James LewisMoss
> On Mon, 7 Sep 1998 19:18:42 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd > Schumacher) said: Bernd> Is it possible/does it make sence to have 2 different Bernd> copyrigth-policies for example CMU and GPL in one copyright Bernd> file? As long as they don't conflict I can't see a problem.