Re: Packaging A+

2002-01-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:28:21PM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > I ITP A+, a programming language and development environment > (http://aplusdev.org). It will be called aplus-fsf. I have not packaged > anything before and I have some questions. The new maintainer's guide was > helpful but did

Packaging A+

2002-01-02 Thread Neil L. Roeth
I ITP A+, a programming language and development environment (http://aplusdev.org). It will be called aplus-fsf. I have not packaged anything before and I have some questions. The new maintainer's guide was helpful but did not cover these areas. 1) The upstream sources put files in non-standard

Packaging A+

2002-01-02 Thread Neil L. Roeth
I ITP A+, a programming language and development environment (http://aplusdev.org). It will be called aplus-fsf. I have not packaged anything before and I have some questions. The new maintainer's guide was helpful but did not cover these areas. 1) The upstream sources put files in non-standar

Re: What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:51:12PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > You as the author can give it away uncopyrighted - asking for nothing, > > > giving it completely for free. Freer even than the BSD license. Yes, as > > > you say, public domain. > > in the usa and similar copyrights rules you can

Sponsor for Nparted and Egoboo

2002-01-02 Thread julien LEMOINE
Hello, I have made two debian packages, Here is the sources.list lines deb http://www.speedblue.org/ debian unstable deb-src http://www.speedblue.org/ debian unstable The packages name are : - Egoboo : 3d dungeon crawling adventure in the spirit of NetHack. (#127235) - nparted : front

Sponsor for two security-related packages

2002-01-02 Thread Thomas Seyrat
Hello, I have recently made my application to become a package maintainer, but am still in need for a sponsor (and maybe for my application, advocate) for at least one of the packages I debianized. * idswakeup : A tool to simulate common attacks to check if network intrusio

Re: What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
> > You as the author can give it away uncopyrighted - asking for nothing, > > giving it completely for free. Freer even than the BSD license. Yes, as > > you say, public domain. > > in the usa and similar copyrights rules you can give away any copyright. > the european copyrights are different. yo

Re: What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:43:27PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > You as the author can give it away uncopyrighted - asking for nothing, > giving it completely for free. Freer even than the BSD license. Yes, as > you say, public domain. in the usa and similar copyrights rules you can give away any co

Re: What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
> Hi! > > I ITP sqlite and am unsure about the license; the website > (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/) states: Sources are > uncopyrighted. Use for any purpose., but one file in the > source tree mentions the GPL. Is it possible to have one's code > 'uncpyrighted'? As I perceived it, the author is

Re: What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello, On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:18:15PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > I ITP sqlite and am unsure about the license; the website > (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/) states: Sources are > uncopyrighted. Use for any purpose., but one file in the > source tree mentions the GPL. Is it possible to

Re: What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:51:12PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > You as the author can give it away uncopyrighted - asking for nothing, > > > giving it completely for free. Freer even than the BSD license. Yes, as > > > you say, public domain. > > in the usa and similar copyrights rules you can

What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Hi! I ITP sqlite and am unsure about the license; the website (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/) states: Sources are uncopyrighted. Use for any purpose., but one file in the source tree mentions the GPL. Is it possible to have one's code 'uncpyrighted'? As I perceived it, the author is always the c

Sponsor for Nparted and Egoboo

2002-01-02 Thread julien LEMOINE
Hello, I have made two debian packages, Here is the sources.list lines deb http://www.speedblue.org/ debian unstable deb-src http://www.speedblue.org/ debian unstable The packages name are : - Egoboo : 3d dungeon crawling adventure in the spirit of NetHack. (#127235) - nparted : fron

Sponsor for two security-related packages

2002-01-02 Thread Thomas Seyrat
Hello, I have recently made my application to become a package maintainer, but am still in need for a sponsor (and maybe for my application, advocate) for at least one of the packages I debianized. * idswakeup : A tool to simulate common attacks to check if network intrusi

Re: What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
> > You as the author can give it away uncopyrighted - asking for nothing, > > giving it completely for free. Freer even than the BSD license. Yes, as > > you say, public domain. > > in the usa and similar copyrights rules you can give away any copyright. > the european copyrights are different. y

Re: What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:43:27PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > You as the author can give it away uncopyrighted - asking for nothing, > giving it completely for free. Freer even than the BSD license. Yes, as > you say, public domain. in the usa and similar copyrights rules you can give away any c

Re: What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
> Hi! > > I ITP sqlite and am unsure about the license; the website > (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/) states: Sources are > uncopyrighted. Use for any purpose., but one file in the > source tree mentions the GPL. Is it possible to have one's code > 'uncpyrighted'? As I perceived it, the author i

Re: What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello, On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:18:15PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > I ITP sqlite and am unsure about the license; the website > (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/) states: Sources are > uncopyrighted. Use for any purpose., but one file in the > source tree mentions the GPL. Is it possible t

What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Hi! I ITP sqlite and am unsure about the license; the website (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/) states: Sources are uncopyrighted. Use for any purpose., but one file in the source tree mentions the GPL. Is it possible to have one's code 'uncpyrighted'? As I perceived it, the author is always the

Re: Sponsoring a package

2002-01-02 Thread Simon Richter
On 29 Dec 2001, Andrew McMillan wrote: > Should I set myself as maintainer, or should I just sign it? I usually build the package with -us -uc and give my key id to debsign afterwards. Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: DC26 EB

Re: Sponsoring a package

2002-01-02 Thread Simon Richter
On 29 Dec 2001, Andrew McMillan wrote: > Should I set myself as maintainer, or should I just sign it? I usually build the package with -us -uc and give my key id to debsign afterwards. Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: DC26 E

Re: Howto remove the source package

2002-01-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Takashi Okamoto | So, I want to remove jakarta-commons source package. What should I do | and where can I get information about it? File a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for their removal. -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.

Howto remove the source package

2002-01-02 Thread Takashi Okamoto
I want to remove the jakarta-commons package because it's obsolete. jakarta-commons generated following packages in the past: libcommons-collections-java libcommons-beanutils-java libcommons-digester-java Now above packages are generated from separated

Re: Howto remove the source package

2002-01-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Takashi Okamoto | So, I want to remove jakarta-commons source package. What should I do | and where can I get information about it? File a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for their removal. -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. --

Howto remove the source package

2002-01-02 Thread Takashi Okamoto
I want to remove the jakarta-commons package because it's obsolete. jakarta-commons generated following packages in the past: libcommons-collections-java libcommons-beanutils-java libcommons-digester-java Now above packages are generated from separate