Re: RFS: transmission

2006-09-14 Thread Philipp Benner
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:45:59 +0100
James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On (12/09/06 01:03), Philipp Benner wrote:
  Hello,
  
  I need a sponsor for this package:
  
  * Package name: transmission
 
  There already is an ITP posted 170 days ago, but no one is responding.
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358878
 
 I wouldn't say that noone is responding. It is a little slow, but it
 seems like there is work being done. 
 
 Have you contacted the people in the report? If you wish to take over
 you should really contact them and then either with their permission, or
 after some time with no response, take over the ITP.

I tried to contact Leo Antunes because he seems to be responsible for
uploading the package but didn't get a response. Although no one
responds to the question of Joshua Kwan which he posted a month ago.

  
  I don't think that the mentioned license problems are relevant. This
  package includes some source files with different licenses but all are
  free. (See the copyright file for details)
 
 If the information there is accurate then it looks OK to me, but I am 
 definately not an expert.
 
 However I can't see a license for the Sparkle stuff for instance.

You are right, but since this Sparkle stuff is not interesting for debian
I just deleted it in the source package.

 You also assert copyright of the Debian packaging, does this mean it is
 not based on the other packages of the software?

I repackaged transmission since the other packages are not up to date and
had some errors.


Regards,

Philipp Benner


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Re: RFS: transmission

2006-09-14 Thread James Westby
On (14/09/06 11:51), Philipp Benner wrote:
 On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:45:59 +0100
 James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I wouldn't say that noone is responding. It is a little slow, but it
  seems like there is work being done. 
  
  Have you contacted the people in the report? If you wish to take over
  you should really contact them and then either with their permission, or
  after some time with no response, take over the ITP.
 
 I tried to contact Leo Antunes because he seems to be responsible for
 uploading the package but didn't get a response. Although no one
 responds to the question of Joshua Kwan which he posted a month ago.
 

Well there's no record of your contact in that bug report. It's a good
idea to Cc: the bug report when you ping a maintainer so it is clear to
others what is happening.

I would suggest you email both of the people involved and Cc: the bug
report, stating that you have packages ready and would like to upload.
Also state that if you do not hear anything in 1/2 weeks you will
upload. If you are happy for co-maintenance then say that as well. Be
aware that the two people are DD's, and so if you approach them right
they might just agree to co-maintenance and upload for you. 

I would suggest having clean packages to do this though. Ask here for a
package check if you want before you do it. 

   
   I don't think that the mentioned license problems are relevant. This
   package includes some source files with different licenses but all are
   free. (See the copyright file for details)
  
  If the information there is accurate then it looks OK to me, but I am 
  definately not an expert.
  
  However I can't see a license for the Sparkle stuff for instance.
 
 You are right, but since this Sparkle stuff is not interesting for debian
 I just deleted it in the source package.

Did you do all the things necessary for repackaging an upstream tarball?

 
  You also assert copyright of the Debian packaging, does this mean it is
  not based on the other packages of the software?
 
 I repackaged transmission since the other packages are not up to date and
 had some errors.

That's fine then.

James

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Re: PAE enabled kernels

2006-09-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hello, 

 Is there any other way to get a PAE enabled kernel (from either stable
 or backports) other than recompiling a custom kernel? Everything I've
 read so far indicates that the only way to go about this is grab the
 kernel source and enabled the high mem option and recompile the kernel.

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Re: binNMU safe and ${binary:Version} or ${source:Version}

2006-09-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 If you want to declare a strict versioned dependency from an arch: all
 package to an arch: any package... don't do that, because it will break
 under binNMUs. :)

I only know of one simple way to handle this:

arch:any provides any-package-1.2-3
arch:all depends  any-package-1.2-3


Some people try to use

arch:all depends any-package (= version), any-package ( next-version)

The BIG problem is how to get the next-version. Say you have version
1.2-3. A binNMU would be 1.2-3+b1, a security release would be
1.2-3etch1 (unless there was a binNMU).

Now, next-version must allow 1.2-3+b1 to be installed but not
1.2-3etch1. But 1.2-3etch1 is  1.2-3+b1 making this somewhat
impossible.

% dpkg --compare-versions 1.2-3etch1  1.2-3+b1  echo yes
yes

Maybe this would work:

any-package (= ${source:version}) | any-package (= ${source:version}+b1), 
any-package (= ${source:version}) | any-package ( ${source:version}+c)

MfG
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Re: RFS: bastet (updated package)

2006-09-14 Thread James Westby
On (14/09/06 00:08), Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote:
 Firstly, i apologize for this massive email sending to the mail list.

No problem.

 
 I uploaded to mentors a new package [1] which fix all this issues (and
 the suggested by James). I'm pending upstream's confirmation about
 license terms.
 
 [1]
 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bastet/bastet_0.41-4.dsc
 

The debian/copyright is better, but you still need the clarification of
the license issues. I see you are trying to get this though, thanks.

Apart from this the package looks good to me, and should be ready for
upload if the license issues are sorted. Unfortuanately I can't upload,
as I am not a DD.

James

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Re: RFS: isomd5sum (formerly anaconda)

2006-09-14 Thread James Westby
On (13/09/06 21:20), Ryan Finnie wrote:
 Greetings James,
 
 Thank you for the recommendations.
 
 On 9/13/06, James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   * Your debian/copyright needs more work, see
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html
 
 debian/copyright brought up to standard, more on that below...

Not quite, you missed md5.c. This file is not under the same license as
the rest of the package, and must be documented in debian/rules.

Also I'm not sure of 

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Is Michael Fulbright supposed to be asserting Copyright as well, or is
he just the author or similar? I believe that he is not, but I wonder if
anyone else has any opinions.

   * Consider using a python framework for managing the byte compilation,
 either python-support or python-central.
 
 pyisomd5sum is a .so extension, not a .py module, so byte compilation
 is not necessary/possible.

Indeed. My apologies.

 I decided
 to separate the isomd5sum directory of the Anaconda sources into its
 own tarball.  As a result, there is now only one copyright holder (Red
 Hat, Inc), and one license (GPLv2).  More on that is at
 http://www.finnie.org/software/isomd5sum/ (this also serves as a home
 page for the broken-out tarball).

This is not the normal method of doing this, but I think that it still
works. It makes it slightly harder for whoever picks up the package if
you were to go AWOL though.

Also if you are repackaging can you remove the .cvsignore files from the
resulting tarball?

There is also no need to have the current maintainer documented in
debian/copyright, that's what debian/control is for.

James

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Re: RFS: bastet (updated package)

2006-09-14 Thread Nacho Barrientos Arias
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:35:13 +0100
James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi James,

-- snip --

 The debian/copyright is better, but you still need the clarification of
 the license issues. I see you are trying to get this though, thanks.

Upstream didn't answer yet, but, in my opinion, COPYING file shows
clearly that Bastet is licensed under the GPL2, probably upstream will
say the same.

 
 Apart from this the package looks good to me, and should be ready for
 upload if the license issues are sorted. Unfortuanately I can't upload,
 as I am not a DD.

Thank you for your nice work reviewing my package. I would be glad if
someone uploaded this package for me :-)

Bye,

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RE : RE : RFS: lisaac

2006-09-14 Thread PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel
 

On (13/09/06 21:59), PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote:
   * I'm a little wary of the copyright situation, as I can't see any
 statements within the package. It appears the license is DFSG free,
 but you need to include any and all copyright statements in your
 debian/copyright. If there are none you should contact upstream to
 add them.

I checked I put the copyright in debian/copyright. So their is no copyright 
problem.

Have a nice day.



Re: RFS: transmission

2006-09-14 Thread Philipp Benner
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:21:18 +0100
James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On (14/09/06 11:51), Philipp Benner wrote:
  On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:45:59 +0100
  James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   I wouldn't say that noone is responding. It is a little slow, but it
   seems like there is work being done. 
   
   Have you contacted the people in the report? If you wish to take over
   you should really contact them and then either with their permission, or
   after some time with no response, take over the ITP.
  
  I tried to contact Leo Antunes because he seems to be responsible for
  uploading the package but didn't get a response. Although no one
  responds to the question of Joshua Kwan which he posted a month ago.
  
 
 Well there's no record of your contact in that bug report. It's a good
 idea to Cc: the bug report when you ping a maintainer so it is clear to
 others what is happening.
 
 I would suggest you email both of the people involved and Cc: the bug
 report, stating that you have packages ready and would like to upload.
 Also state that if you do not hear anything in 1/2 weeks you will
 upload. If you are happy for co-maintenance then say that as well. Be
 aware that the two people are DD's, and so if you approach them right
 they might just agree to co-maintenance and upload for you. 

Thanks for your help. I sent a message to the bug report.

 
 I would suggest having clean packages to do this though. Ask here for a
 package check if you want before you do it. 
 

I don't think that the mentioned license problems are relevant. This
package includes some source files with different licenses but all are
free. (See the copyright file for details)
   
   If the information there is accurate then it looks OK to me, but I am 
   definately not an expert.
   
   However I can't see a license for the Sparkle stuff for instance.
  
  You are right, but since this Sparkle stuff is not interesting for debian
  I just deleted it in the source package.
 
 Did you do all the things necessary for repackaging an upstream tarball?

Thanks for the hint, I created a get-orig-source rule which handles the 
repackaging
and explained what I modified in debian/README.Debian-source.

 
  
   You also assert copyright of the Debian packaging, does this mean it is
   not based on the other packages of the software?
  
  I repackaged transmission since the other packages are not up to date and
  had some errors.
 
 That's fine then.
 
 James
 
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Re: Need help with kernel module building

2006-09-14 Thread Marcus Better
Marc Haber wrote:
 Which component of the build process is supposed to handle the control
 file generation

module-assistant. You will see that debian/rules includes some files
from /usr/share/modass. The documentation for module-assistant has the
details.

 as I suppose that the module build process actually 
 needs a control and a control.modules file, right?

For example, let's say that I'm packaging a module named foo, with source
package name foo. This is described by a control file as usual. It builds
a binary package called foo-source, which essentially only contains an
archive of the module sources in /usr/src/foo.tar.bz2. The actual module is
built from the contents of that archive. The control.modules.in file is
processed by the module-assistant rules during module build, and renamed
to control (by replacing placeholders with the actual kernel version).
This generated control file describes the resulting binary module package
foo-module-${KVERS}.

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Re: binNMU safe and ${binary:Version} or ${source:Version}

2006-09-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:55:47PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  If you want to declare a strict versioned dependency from an arch: all
  package to an arch: any package... don't do that, because it will break
  under binNMUs. :)

 I only know of one simple way to handle this:

 arch:any provides any-package-1.2-3
 arch:all depends  any-package-1.2-3

 Some people try to use

 arch:all depends any-package (= version), any-package ( next-version)

 The BIG problem is how to get the next-version. Say you have version
 1.2-3. A binNMU would be 1.2-3+b1, a security release would be
 1.2-3etch1 (unless there was a binNMU).

In the Great Scheme, these were supposed to become 1.2-3+etch1 instead of
1.2-3etch1 so that security NMUs would sort higher than binNMUs...

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Re: RFS: weplab -- tool designed to break WEP keys

2006-09-14 Thread Erik Schanze
Hello James and Adam,

James Westby James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 On (12/09/06 13:53), Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote:
  I am looking for a sponsor for my package weplab.
 
  * Package name: weplab

 Looks good to me.

  I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

 I can't I'm afraid, but maybe someone else would like to.

Good work, uploaded.


Kindly regards,

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Re: RFS: isomd5sum (formerly anaconda)

2006-09-14 Thread Ryan Finnie

On 9/14/06, James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Not quite, you missed md5.c. This file is not under the same license as
the rest of the package, and must be documented in debian/rules.


(I'm assuming you mean debian/copyright, not debian/rules.)
Doh.  Is there boilerplate text for non-copyright public domain text,
or should I basically put the first paragraph of md5.c's comments in
debian/copyright?


Is Michael Fulbright supposed to be asserting Copyright as well, or is
he just the author or similar? I believe that he is not, but I wonder if
anyone else has any opinions.


He's just the author, and is already documented as such.  Red Hat
employees assign copyright to the company for code they produce.


 I decided
 to separate the isomd5sum directory of the Anaconda sources into its
 own tarball.  As a result, there is now only one copyright holder (Red
 Hat, Inc), and one license (GPLv2).  More on that is at
 http://www.finnie.org/software/isomd5sum/ (this also serves as a home
 page for the broken-out tarball).

This is not the normal method of doing this, but I think that it still
works. It makes it slightly harder for whoever picks up the package if
you were to go AWOL though.


Yes, this is not the ideal situation, but the legal requirements makes
it pretty daunting to maintain copyright notices for the entire
anaconda project, especially considering 95% of the code won't be used
(actually, 99.65% by source tarball size).  If isomd5sum were
constantly updated, I wouldn't have considered this, but the source
has been feature complete and relatively untouched for years now.
Nonetheless, I will consider it an active duty to check for changes in
upstream.


Also if you are repackaging can you remove the .cvsignore files from the
resulting tarball?


This will be done.


There is also no need to have the current maintainer documented in
debian/copyright, that's what debian/control is for.


I agree, but that paragraph is listed as a good example in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html
...

Ryan Finnie


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Re: RFS: bastet (updated package)

2006-09-14 Thread Erik Schanze
Nacho Barrientos Arias Nacho Barrientos Arias [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
 - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bastet
 - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian
 unstable main contrib non-free
 - dget
 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bastet/bastet_0.41-4.dsc

 I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

Good work.
Uploaded.


Kindly regards,

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Re: RFS: bastet (updated package)

2006-09-14 Thread Nacho Barrientos Arias
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:52:50 +0200
Erik Schanze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Good work.
 Uploaded.

Thank you Erik.


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Re: RFS: isomd5sum (formerly anaconda)

2006-09-14 Thread James Westby
On (14/09/06 13:44), Ryan Finnie wrote:
 On 9/14/06, James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Not quite, you missed md5.c. This file is not under the same license as
 the rest of the package, and must be documented in debian/rules.
 
 (I'm assuming you mean debian/copyright, not debian/rules.)

Indeed, sorry.

 Doh.  Is there boilerplate text for non-copyright public domain text,
 or should I basically put the first paragraph of md5.c's comments in
 debian/copyright?

Just stick the whole header in there really. It explains the whole
situation well. That file is in many packages in the archive, and that
is what I have encouraged other people to do.

 
 He's just the author, and is already documented as such.  Red Hat
 employees assign copyright to the company for code they produce.
 

Ok, that's fine then. Thanks for the clarification.

 This is not the normal method of doing this, but I think that it still
 works. It makes it slightly harder for whoever picks up the package if
 you were to go AWOL though.
 
 Yes, this is not the ideal situation, but the legal requirements makes
 it pretty daunting to maintain copyright notices for the entire
 anaconda project, especially considering 95% of the code won't be used
 (actually, 99.65% by source tarball size).  If isomd5sum were

That's understandable.

 constantly updated, I wouldn't have considered this, but the source
 has been feature complete and relatively untouched for years now.
 Nonetheless, I will consider it an active duty to check for changes in
 upstream.

I meant that it's not usual to create a new tarball and host it. Usually
the upstream tarball is still referenced, and there are just somethings
added to the package. Then the maintainer recreates the .orig.tar.gz
each new upstream version. 

I don't see that it matters either way though, so whatever you prefer.

 There is also no need to have the current maintainer documented in
 debian/copyright, that's what debian/control is for.
 
 I agree, but that paragraph is listed as a good example in
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html

Ah true. I hadn't noticed that. I'll just consider it a small mistake in
an otherwise excellent post.

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Re: RFS: isomd5sum (formerly anaconda)

2006-09-14 Thread Ryan Finnie

isomd5sum_11.1.0.95-1 has been updated in-place.  Removed .cvsignore,
added md5.c information to debian/copyright, removed unnecessary
current maintainer line from debian/copyright.  James, thanks a lot
for your help.

Ryan Finnie

On 9/14/06, James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Just stick the whole header in there really. It explains the whole
situation well. That file is in many packages in the archive, and that
is what I have encouraged other people to do.


Done.


 I agree, but that paragraph is listed as a good example in
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html

Ah true. I hadn't noticed that. I'll just consider it a small mistake in
an otherwise excellent post.


I have removed that line, because as you mentioned, it's largely unnecessary.


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Building a program with the library shipped in Debian, not in orig.tar.gz

2006-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Mentors

I am preparing Debian packages for EMBOSS (the European Molecular
Biology Software Suite, www.emboss.org), and I run in the following
problem:

EMBOSS is shipped and built with its own copy of libpcre. As a result,
the EMBOSS Debian package contains some files wich are also in the
libpcre Debian package, and they conflict together.

I would like to try to build EMBOSS with the libpcre from Debian, but I
could not figure out how to do. Can somebody give me hints?

EMBOSS uses the auto(make|conf) system - I do not understand the
difference yet. The files for libpcre such as pcre.h are in the same
directory as the files for a core EMBOSS library. I need to tell the
program to use /usr/include/pcre.h and so on, but I have no clue on how
to do this (I never programmed in C).

Is there a documentation for solving that kind of problem? I beleive it
should be recurrent in Debian...

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Re: Building a program with the library shipped in Debian, not in orig.tar.gz

2006-09-14 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 15.09.2006, 09:46 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy:

 I am preparing Debian packages for EMBOSS (the European Molecular
 Biology Software Suite, www.emboss.org), and I run in the following
 problem:
 
 EMBOSS is shipped and built with its own copy of libpcre. As a result,
 the EMBOSS Debian package contains some files wich are also in the
 libpcre Debian package, and they conflict together.
 
 I would like to try to build EMBOSS with the libpcre from Debian, but I
 could not figure out how to do. Can somebody give me hints?
 
 EMBOSS uses the auto(make|conf) system - I do not understand the
 difference yet.

I guess, it will be more problematic to begin to change the
Makefile.am/.in or configure.ac/.in files in the Debian package, than
just making the custom changes to use Debian pcre-package. If EMBOSS
compiles with a common libpcre-version, upstream should add the
necessary checks for an libpcre installation and prefer this version,
instead of the shipped pcre-version. But for you, this will be overkill
I guess (you know, where the libpcre-header files are installed, so you
don't need such checks).

 The files for libpcre such as pcre.h are in the same
 directory as the files for a core EMBOSS library. I need to tell the
 program to use /usr/include/pcre.h and so on, but I have no clue on how
 to do this (I never programmed in C).

In short: Change

#include pcre.h

to

#include pcre.h

and see 'man pcre-config' for the compilation arguments (you only need,
what --libs tells you in the linking step, IIRC).

 Is there a documentation for solving that kind of problem? I beleive it
 should be recurrent in Debian...

HTH and regards, Daniel


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Licence issues

2006-09-14 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
I'm making a package for internal use, but want to get it right in
case I decide to try to get it uploaded.

Some of the upstream code has the license quoted at the end. That
license IMHO makes the code not only non-free but actually not
source-distributable. However, that code is unmaintained upstream
and not used in the version i'm compiling. Should I repackage
upstream's tarball to exclude it?

The license:

/*
 *
 *  RADIUS -- Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
 *
 * COPYRIGHT  (c)  1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
 * THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AND MERIT NETWORK, INCORPORATED
 * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
 * 
 * PERMISSION IS GRANTED TO USE, COPY, CREATE DERIVATIVE WORKS AND REDISTRIBUTE
 * THIS SOFTWARE AND SUCH DERIVATIVE WORKS IN BINARY FORM ONLY FOR ANY PURPOSE,
 * SO LONG AS NO FEE IS CHARGED, AND SO LONG AS THE COPYRIGHT NOTICE ABOVE, 
THIS 
 * GRANT OF PERMISSION, AND THE DISCLAIMER BELOW APPEAR IN ALL COPIES MADE; AND
 * SO LONG AS THE NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IS NOT USED IN ANY
 * ADVERTISING OR PUBLICITY PERTAINING TO THE USE OR DISTRIBUTION OF THIS
 * SOFTWARE WITHOUT SPECIFIC, WRITTEN PRIOR AUTHORIZATION.
 * 
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT REPRESENTATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY
 * OF MICHIGAN AS TO ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE, AND WITHOUT WARRANTY BY THE
 * UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
 * WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
 * A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SHALL NOT 
BE 
 * LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR
 * CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WITH RESPECT TO ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR IN
 * CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE, EVEN IF IT HAS BEEN OR IS HEREAFTER
 * ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
 * 
 * For a License to distribute source code or to charge a fee for the program
 * or a product containing the program, contact MERIT at the University of
 * Michigan:
 * 
 * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * 
 * [This version puts NO LIMITS on the use.  It grants the right to create
 * DERIVATIVE WORKS.  The user may copy and distribute the code in the form
 * received AND DERIVATIVE WORKS, so long as no fee is charged.  If copies are
 * made, our copyright notice and the disclaimer must be included on them.  USE
 * THIS VERSION WITH CARE.  THIS VERSION VERY LIKELY WILL KILL ANY POTENTIAL
 * FOR LATER COMMERCIALIZATION OF THE SOFTWARE.]


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