Alexander Skwar wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:34:25PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > We have to at least move it to the contribs (I say at least because it
> > falls into the commercial app category (as being a shareware) so it must
> > go theorically in the commercial CD's).
>
> That be to harsh IMHO. The author is fair enough to provide the source code
> free of charge, and his license is quite fair, again IMHO. Contrib is good
> enough, but at least get it of the GPL (!!) CDs, because it ain't GPL.
Not that I want to start a license war...
Neither is Apache, Netscape, and a host of other packages. Not being
GPL'd should not be a bar from being on the main distribution.
Pragmatism falls in line with functionality and some of us like XV, it's
very reliable, unlike some of the others I have seen. It is the reason I
keep using it.
John
