Henry Jensen schreef: > Hello, > > I am Henry, a 40 year old computer engineer from Germany. I am using > free software since 1999 and created the "DeLi GNU/Linux" > distribution in 2002. > > Altough the last release of DeLi is more than 2 years old there is > still an active community. So we, a small team, decided to create a > successor project, this time as entirely free software. > > ConnochaetOS will be a free operating system for the desktop with old > computers in mind but with modern software. The name ConnochaetOS > derives from "Connochaetes", the scientific name for "Gnu". > ConnochaetOS will contain only free software, according to the GNU > Guidelines for Free System Distributions. We aim for minimal hardware > requirements, as low as a Pentium I processor and 64 MB RAM for a > graphical desktop. > > The web site will be at http://www.connochaetos.org > > As usual with such projects we are searching for any help and > resources for hosting.
Welcome to the free distro community. > We are still in the early stages of development, and right now I am > constructing a build system, which brings me to some practical > questions regarding some packages. The "Software Blacklist" at > http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Software_blacklist didn't list this > software, but I have some concerns about them. > > > netpbm ====== The site http://netpbm.alioth.debian.org/ states "The > upstream source is split into two to allow Debian packaging - some of > it is free and some goes into non-free. Some of the upstream source > files cannot be redistributed at all, as there is no license > associated with them. " > > At least hpcdtoppm seems to be non-free, but this program doesn't > seemed to be included any longer in the source tarball of various > distros, instead a replacement script was added, stating that > hpcdtoppm ist not included any more. > > I just wonder if there may be other problems with netpbm, since > Debian still has its "netpbm-free" but other distros include > "standard" netpbm, including free distros (I confirmed that for > BLAG). Debian copyright info [1] has an "UNKNOWN, SO NOT DISTRIBUTED" section. > psutils ======= The license states: > > "The included files, md68_0.ps and md71_0.ps (and their uuencoded > forms) are (to the best of my knowledge) copyright Apple Computer, > Inc." > > The mentioned files are without license and copyright notice. Can I > disribute them with peace of conscience? The "to the best of my knowledge" doesn't give much hope, but I suggest you contact upstream anyway to ask about copyright and license information. [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm-free_10.0-12.2/copyright