Bug#224077: xsnow licensing

2005-10-30 Thread Cai Qian
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

Bug#224077: xsnow licensing

2005-10-29 Thread Martin Samuelsson
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,

Bug#224077: xsnow licensing

2005-10-29 Thread Randall Donald
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