Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you want wide distribution and adoption of your software in the free software community, then use a free/open source toolkit. if you don't care about that then use motif or some other proprietary toolkit. The thing here is that no free

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-25 Thread Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Great proposition. Unfortunately, both lesstif and gtk developers flamed me heavily while I was lurking on their lists :) May be it's my problem though... could be. it's hard to imagine that a lurker would get flamed. people usually only get flamed for saying something annoying. Oh,

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED]@krypton.stern.nyu.edu wrote: Great proposition. Unfortunately, both lesstif and gtk developers flamed me heavily while I was lurking on their lists :) May be it's my problem though... could be. it's hard to imagine that a lurker

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front end to the ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am currently considering writing one. The current plan is to produce both a ncurses version, and a HTML

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-24 Thread Norbert Veber
Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front end to the ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am currently considering writing one. The current plan is to produce both a ncurses version, and a HTML version. But why reinvent the wheel if there is already one.

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front end to the ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am currently considering writing one. The current plan is to produce both a ncurses version, and a HTML version. But

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-24 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I hope you'll put it under the GPL. Hope you wouldn't :) Since I wouldn't be able to create a Motif interface in case you put it under GPL. I am having a big problems with GPL'd software now: I am writing a Motif clone of WS_FTP and while the front-end is almost ready, I am

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Guys, what I am doing is a high-quality gui programming. (sorry if it sounds a bit ... not humble). Even Motif is not enough for this kind of task. I am using most of the features of Motif 2.0 (those which are also present in 2.1) - this rules

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front end to the ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am currently considering writing one. The current plan is to produce both a ncurses version, and a HTML version.

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-24 Thread aqy6633
that's fine, you can program in whatever toolkit you prefer. Thanks :) however, you have to accept the fact that some of your choices may be incompatible with free software licensing. Sure. if you want wide distribution and adoption of your software in the free software community, then

Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-23 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hello all, Could someone please explain the concept of Non-Free Packages please (i.e. Pine etc). It is just that I don't understand why other distributions can include them in there official releases, where as debain can not. Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
Could someone please explain the concept of Non-Free Packages please (i.e. Pine etc). These are well explained at http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html It is just that I don't understand why other distributions can include them in there official releases, where as debain can

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-23 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 02:11:44PM +, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: Could someone please explain the concept of Non-Free Packages please (i.e. Pine etc). Please read Debian's Social Contract at http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Included on that page you'll find the

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-23 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: Could someone please explain the concept of Non-Free Packages please (i.e. Pine etc). Take a look at /usr/doc/debian/FAQ/debian-faq.txt.gz in section 5.6.1 where this is explained. It is just that I don't understand why other

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-23 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front end to the ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am currently considering writing one. The current plan is to produce both a ncurses version, and a HTML version. But why reinvent the wheel if there is already