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

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

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 fr

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, t

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 ver

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 les

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 > > r

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 ver

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 on

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

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

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 di

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 "De

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 no