Hi Hamish.
>> I also asked Mr Bester regarding this, and he made his position
>> VERY clear in his response: As far as he is concerned, even
>> repackaging his software from the original .tar.Z archives to
>> .tar.gz breaks the terms of his licnce, never mind packaging it
>> up in .rpm or .deb packages...
>> Basically, anybody who downloads other than sattrack-3.1.6.tar.Z
>> has downloaded a pirate version as far as he is concerned...
> Hmm, news to me. He granted me permission to create the Debian
> package (the message text is in /usr/doc/sattrack/copyright),
> which means a .tar.gz.
> www.bester.com has no mention of SatTrack 3.x as far as I could see.
I scanned his entire site looking for mention of it without success,
so emailed him with a specific request on the subject. I quote his
reply:
Q> It is the policy of Bester Tracking Systems to require that all
Q> software produced by us is only distributed in the form in which
Q> we distribute it.
Q> We can confirm that version 3 of sattrack was officially
Q> distributed in .tar.Z format, so you should look for such.
That seems pretty clear to me...
Best wishes from Riley.
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