Peter, I had a similar problem with SILO (Sparc version of lilo).
http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00101 With regard to your question, I would check the package for the maintainer's details, and then email him/ her for confirmation of details. When I contacted the maintainer to do with SILO, it prompted a copyright/ licence info page for the package, which had been overlooked. I also tried Sourceforge and Google, to guide me, in-case the maintainer wasn't helpful (he was). Hope this helps. Cheers, Chris. On 22/09/2007, Peter Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, here is a first for me. I tried to check the copyright on a > package named "elilo-installer", but there is no copyright. I don't > mean public domain, I mean no copyright... > > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/e/elilo-installer/elilo-installer_1.5ubuntu3/ > > In the package > > http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense/pool/main/e/elilo-installer/elilo-installer_1.5ubuntu3.tar.gz > > is a readme file that says... > > "This is an empty package, whose postinst autodetects drives and > installs elilo, which is the ia64 equivalent of LILO." > > So if this is an "empty" package, then it must be free. But what is an > "empty" package? And how could something that is "empty" actually > perform a task? And how should I mark it? Pardon my ignorance... > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > -- Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: http://www.getgnulinux.org/ A great GNU/Linux distro: http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
