Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Cc'ed -legal, as this is a legal question; please CC me on replies, I'm not on -legal]
> Hello. > > I have just noticed today that freeamp has been sort-of-renamed to > zinf in sarge. > > Is there any particular reason why a dummy freeamp package does not > exist for the transition to be smooth? > > The upgrade from woody to sarge is currently broken: "apt-get upgrade" > does not upgrade sox and vorbis-tools because doing so would remove > freeamp, and of course freeamp is not upgraded to zinf as it should be. > > A dummy package would solve this problem easily. > I'll provide one ASAP, however a problem is that "Amp" is a trademark of NullSoft (the company producing WinAmp) and thus FreeAmp has been renamed. Are there any legal implications of keeping a package named freeamp in Debian (or at least in Sarge)? Thanks, Andy -- Andreas Rottmann
