On 17 Jun 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
> > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As some of you might know, I have been working on full debs of netscape > > 4.05. I have everything almost perfect, except for the reporting clause. > > Is there any possibility we could get permission from Netscape to skip the > reporting clause? Frankly I'm concerned any such reporting directly from the > client machine would be a nasty privacy violation. Since it's going in > non-free anyways it doesn't particularly matter if it has debian-specific > permissions. Sorry, I already tried. > It would also be interesting to generate a pre-fortified version for nonus. That is something I have thought about. It is not foremost on my TODO list. > PS: this may all be a distraction from working on real free software, but it's > a darned attractive distraction... It would be real nice to a have a proper > netscape package. I am working toward a proper deb. I am working on an automated email sender to satisfy netscape. Currently, it looks like this: ===== Received: from adam.heath by adam.hackers-net.com with local (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian)) id 0ympGh-0002g6-00; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:43:11 -0500 X-Debian_Report_Version: 1.0 X-Debian_Report-Pkg: netscape4-java (4.05-0.11) X-Debian_Report-Pkg: netscape4-base (4.05-0.12) X-Debian_Report-Pkg: navigator4-smotif (4.05-0.12) X-Debian_Report-SRC: communicator From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian Automatic Package Registration Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:43:11 -0500 This is an automated mail message sent upon installation of certain packages. It is just used to tally the number of times it is installed worldwide. _start_of_data_ Package: netscape4-java Version: 4.05-0.11 Package: netscape4-base Version: 4.05-0.12 Package: navigator4-smotif Version: 4.05-0.12 ===== Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]