On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 09:39:36PM -0700, toff wrote: > I am thinking about applying to become a maintainer, and was looking > through the orphaned packages. mpsql caught my eye, as my day job is > usually 9-to-5 SQL, and my boss has asked me to look into pgsql for > our company. > > So potentially I could have some time to work on this. Anyway, I saw > that it is in the non-free distribution. I just wondered why that > was. I searched the debian-legal archives all the way back, not a peep > about mpsql. And the license seems innocuous enough to my (admittedly > untrained) eye: >
Answering myself, when I looked at the full copyright, it has a portion (called libhelp) licensed under a restrictive NCSA Mosiac license. So now I understand. If I excised the help library, I believe it could be free. Is there a more standard help utility in X besides Gnome Help Browser (which I really like)? I think this help library provides context-sensitive help. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
