Re: Questions concerning S/390 OCO-modules

2001-08-18 Thread Walter Landry
Actually, the requirement is a little different from that. We have to ensure that anyone who uses the program will comply with the license. They don't have to have read the license, so we don't have to have a post install pop-up (which would be incredibly annoying). But they do have

RE: Questions concerning S/390 OCO-modules

2001-08-18 Thread John Galt
Subject: Re: Questions concerning S/390 OCO-modules Wait a minute here, is this going where I think it's going? The bootfloppies for s390 have non-free modules on them!? Does this requirement of non-free modules ever get remedied, or are these s390 modules going to saddle the entire arch

Re: Questions concerning S/390 OCO-modules

2001-08-16 Thread Jochen Röhrig
Hi, thanks a lot for your comments, Walter - please let me add a few considerations: On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 02:08:24PM -0600, Walter Landry wrote: This raises a few questions: - Does the license allow distribution of the oco-drivers with Debian? From item 1. of the license

Re: Questions concerning S/390 OCO-modules

2001-08-16 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:08:02PM +0200, Jochen R?hrig wrote: I assume you are referring to this part of the license agreement: You will ensure that anyone who uses the Program does so only in compliance with the terms of this Agreement. If we force the user to read the license

Re: Questions concerning S/390 OCO-modules

2001-08-14 Thread Walter Landry
Hi, I would like to package three network device drivers for IBM S/390 (see ITPs #108709, #108710, #108711). The device drivers are provided by IBM as OCO (object code only) modules (i.e. there are no sources available) and they are released under a special IBM International License