On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:05:09PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:18:45AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > > I am interested in gsview which is famous in Windows users > > > and a kind of ghostview or gv. But I am not sure if its license > > > permits us to upload to Debian or not. > > > > Why do you want to package it? It's not like it fills a need that > > can't be filled with free software. > > Well, it might be not so important but I guess that many > users of Windows now come and begin to use Linux so if they > find the same applications in Linux as in Windows they might > feel happy.
I doubt there's that many Windows' users who have a huge attachment to their Postscript viewer. > > This is the only part that seems non-free. If I read this right, it's > > a restriction on distribution Debian can't satisfy even in non-free; we > > would have to make sure anyone we distributed to agreed before we gave > > them a copy. > > Then, at installation with preinst, one can ask a user > if you agree all terms and conditions of pstotext's license? > and if a user selects 'Yes' then install gsview otherwise > aborts to install. But this seems to be insufficient... Please don't - whether or not it's sufficient (which is true - we already distributed it by the time they see that message), it's obnoxious and something that should be avoided if possible. Please don't package this if you don't use it. I doubt there is many (any, hopefully) Debian developers who want to see non-free grow, and especially not for a redundant Postscript view. We have gv, ghostview, gnome-gv and the KDE one in Debian. We don't need a non-free Postscript viewer. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org
