[Fink-devel] latest fink, convinience Bug?

2005-03-30 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 When you develop away and you alter an info file, check it into CVs and then do something like: fink list --maintainer=Darian Fink has detected that your package index cache is missing or out of date, but does not have privileges to modify it. Re-r

Re: [Fink-devel] License for .info and .patch files

2005-03-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Trevor Harmon wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: But once you filter out the idea (also not copyrightable, see Title 17, Sec. 102(b)), I suspect you'll find that the expression of that idea is quite limited by the technical and policy requirements of the info file. T

Re: [Fink-devel] License for .info and .patch files

2005-03-30 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 30, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: But once you filter out the idea (also not copyrightable, see Title 17, Sec. 102(b)), I suspect you'll find that the expression of that idea is quite limited by the technical and policy requirements of the info file. True, but that is not t

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: License for .info and .patch files

2005-03-30 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
How does Debian handle this? They use a similar info/patch system, right? And I've seen from other issues that debian-legal is very involved in licensing issues so I'm guessing they've thought this out. Hanspeter -- Hanspeter Niederstrasser, Ph.D.Dept. of Cell Biology hniederstrass

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: License for .info and .patch files

2005-03-30 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 30, 2005, at 6:48 AM, Daniel E. Macks wrote: David R. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: In that spirit, it makes sense to me that we would say that the patch files inherited the same license their project was released under. By "their project", do you mean Fink or each's package? I am thi

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: License for .info and .patch files

2005-03-30 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel E. Macks wrote: | David R. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: | |>Here's my take on this licensing issue, for what it's worth. |> |>I think we should explicitly indicate that authors of .info files are |>*contributing* those files to the fin

[Fink-devel] Re: License for .info and .patch files

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel E. Macks
David R. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Here's my take on this licensing issue, for what it's worth. > > I think we should explicitly indicate that authors of .info files are > *contributing* those files to the fink project when they submit them for > inclusion in the fink trees. As contrib

Re: [Fink-devel] esound-0.2.35-8

2005-03-30 Thread Martin Costabel
RLD wrote: Problem getting binary for esound via apt-get upgrade: Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc//sound/ esound_0.2.35-8_darwin-powerpc.deb Size mismatch This usually indicates that you forgot to run apt-get update first. -- Martin -