reopen 350624 thanks On Sat, 02 Jun 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: > That said, can the ftpmaster who approved the inclusion of star in > main speak up and give their rationale?
Actually, I must take this back; it's almost certain that ftpmaster did not approve this, because the work when originally included in Debian (S tar 1.4.3) was only licensed under the GPL [From star.c]: /* * Copyright (c) 1985, 88-90, 92-96, 98, 99, 2000-2002 J. Schilling */ /* * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) * any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with * this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ I'm not entirely sure that it would have been found acceptable had it gone through NEW with its current license. Don Armstrong -- Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]