Bug#224077: xsnow licensing
Hi, From: Randall Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#224077: xsnow licensing Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:10:15 -0700 A couple of things: 1) I do know an address where the author can be contacted 2) This package is in the middle of being adopted by Cai Qian who I believe is trying to resolve this issue. (see #329485) 3) From discussions with the author I discovered he has permission to use toon_root.c under the xsnow license, he just never stated that anywhere. 4) You should have asked the maintainer where the license status was before duplicating discussions with upstream. I have emailed the author, and I am still waiting his reply. Regards, Cai Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#224077: xsnow licensing
By reading the changelog at the following location, http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/x/xsnow/xsnow_1.41-2/changelog one learns that xsnow is virtually unusable in modern environments because of a four year old license violation. Your upstream web page, http://www.euronet.nl/~rja/Xsnow/, shows that version as still being the most recent release. This is not an ideal situation. Could you please either remove the version containing toon_root.c from your web page or relicense the whole thing under the GPL? Do keep this bug report Cc:ed to your reply. -- /Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#224077: xsnow licensing
A couple of things: 1) I do know an address where the author can be contacted 2) This package is in the middle of being adopted by Cai Qian who I believe is trying to resolve this issue. (see #329485) 3) From discussions with the author I discovered he has permission to use toon_root.c under the xsnow license, he just never stated that anywhere. 4) You should have asked the maintainer where the license status was before duplicating discussions with upstream. Regards, randy -- Randall Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.khensu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer/Debian Developer GnuPG: 6C27DEAB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
