On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 03:31:33PM -0800, Golda Velez wrote: > I'm the current maintainer of glimpse search engine, which is not open > source but is free for edu & nonprofit, and which I am happy to let people > distribute as long as they keep the COPYRIGHT notice around that tells > commercial folks they are supposed to pay. > > Would debian want to distribute glimpse, given that its not GNU licensed?
We can't include it in the main section of the distribution, since everything in main allows commercial as well as non-commercial redistribution (not necessarily the GNU licence - BSD, X11, public domain and a number of other licences are represented there too). However, glimpse could certainly be returned to the non-free section if a Debian developer wanted to maintain it. The reason why it was removed was due to a combination of its Debian maintainer having gone missing, various Debian-specific problems which weren't getting fixed, and a grave security bug that had been open against it for a long time. I remember looking at it at the time and deciding that it was well beyond our scope to fix, especially since it didn't make it into our last stable release, and a few other people agreed with me; if you could take care of that bug, though, then it could potentially be reintroduced. URLs for bug lists: http://bugs.debian.org/60852 (the temporary file race mentioned above) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=glimpse&archive=yes (all archived bugs against glimpse; the ones closed by Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo are the ones that were still open when the package was removed) Regards, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
