Andrew Hoying wrote:
>
> I guess by making these packages available for download, the LEAF project's
> various LRP variants are technically a distribution.
LEAF, in my mind, consists of two distributions - or at least, sponsors
them - Eigerstein and Oxygen.
> However as more people begin using these various LRP
> distributions, there are two primary concerns.
>
> First is package compatibility. Obviously I want a .lrp package to work on
> any lrp variant. I think that a new, more refined packaging scheme will
> bring us even further in this direction, although it may break compatibility
> with older systems. If forced to break compatibility, we will obviously want
> to change the extension to something else at the same time.
The biggest break will be compiling items for glibc 2.1 and glibc 2.2;
there hasn't been a good choice proposed as how to deal with this. I've
taken the position (weakly and reluctantly) of putting "(GLIBC2.1)"
somewhere in the version.
Using vfat instead of msdos is another possibility... for longer
filenames.
> Second is legality. As I've said no one is really auditing the various
> packages. Most developers, myself included, often over look the various
> license schemes that people distribute their software under, expecting it to
> fall under the GNU/GPL or a BSD style license.
I've in the past tried to see what the licenses were; I'm not sure
whether I missed any or not. Only ones I can think of that have unique
licenses (non-OpenSource?) would be tin and archie. Neither are
included in Debian's "free" section, as far as I know, though I don't
know why.
> In any case, that's my two cents on the subject. Perhaps we need to do some
> auditing and remove the packages that do not fit into the bounds of LRP,
> either legally or because of incompatibility.
Perhaps LEAF can adopt the Debian classification system (free and
non-free, etc.) and classify packages that way?
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