On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 05:02:27PM +0900, Klaus Kudielka wrote:
> > I should be able to do some work on the sattrack package this weekend.
>
> Since Bester doesn't seem to maintain SatTrack 3 anymore (I found *no*
> reference on the SatTrack homepage), I think we need a maintainer - not
> just of the Debian package, but of the "original" tarball.
>
> Are you going to volunteer? ;)
Depends what you had in mind ;-)
I don't mind working on the scripts and modifying it to work in a multiuser
installation -- I think the original sources work well installed into
$HOME, but not well as part of the full system. I already did some work
on that in the Debian package so far.
I also made some changes to the X11 detection; I found that checking
for X by testing $TERM == xterm was unreliable; I have $TERM == rxvt here,
and even on xterm, $TERM == xterm-debian on Debian systems. Now it checks
for $DISPLAY.
The SatTrack license does not allow us to distribute modified versions without
permission. Check /usr/doc/sattrack/copyright in the Debian package;
it has the text of the email permission for distribution I received
from Manfred Bester. Hopefully the modifications I have made so far fit
within the permission I received from Mr Bester. Obviously Debian needs
to make some modifications to integrate software into our system.
I'm now a bit concerned that the permission may not be enough.
I think we need a free software alternative.
Hamish
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