Bob The changelog for mirror 2.8-15 included:
Bob
Bob * Applied patch by Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] to allow restarts
Bob on partially downloaded files (fixes #19239)
Bob
Bob I would like to see this feature continued if it isn't in 2.9-1
Bob by default.
Looks like it
Bob Perhaps you could persuade the author to add support for restarts
Bob on partially downloaded files, and any other desirable patches that
Bob are not included in 2.9.
I haven't had time to check the documentation. This might be implemented in
2.9. I'd be grateful if you could test
Santiago Does this mean the modified-for-Debian mirror may not be
Santiago distributed inside the .deb binary package?
Well, in mirror_2.9-1, all files by Lee are unmodified. No patches yet ...
Marcelo Isn't that distributing modified bynaries? I mean, you are not
Marcelo distributing
Bob I would like to see this feature continued if it isn't in 2.9-1
Bob by default.
Note that the license currently states that distributing modified versions of
mirror is not koscher.
There were way more patches, big and small. Maybe I should release a
mirror28 package which
Dirk == Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dirk Note that the license currently states that distributing
Dirk modified versions of mirror is not koscher.
I fretted at first, then noticed what it prohibited was distributing
modified code, not modified binaries as pine demands. This may
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Santiago Does this mean the modified-for-Debian mirror may not be
Santiago distributed inside the .deb binary package?
Well, in mirror_2.9-1, all files by Lee are unmodified. No patches yet ...
Yes, but
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Clarification, I said:
[ Otherwise, I could distribute my unmodified pine396-src package in
main, which would be clearly against DFSG ].
Really, this was not a good example, because pine copyright would
still say No commercial use of these trademarks.
Hi,
What new and improved features would we forego if you released a
mirror28 package? I guess I will have to install 2.9 to see if I'm
happy with it.
Perhaps you could persuade the author to add support for restarts
on partially downloaded files, and any other desirable patches that
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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
A new mirror_2.9-1 is now on master. The copyright has changed (see below),
and should be fine with us. Or is the 'changes must be distributed as
patches' policy too restrictive for us?
It is allowed, as an
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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to
distribute the modified code. Modifications are to be distributed as
patches to released version.
Mmm, wait a moment...
Does this mean
Hi,
This new release is fresh code, and I won't pull out all the patches
we applied against mirror_2.8. Let me know if there is a feature in
2.8 that you really miss. I could make a 'retro' package mirror28 of
the old release.
The changelog for mirror 2.8-15 included:
* Applied
A new mirror_2.9-1 is now on master. The copyright has changed (see below),
and should be fine with us. Or is the 'changes must be distributed as
patches' policy too restrictive for us?
So here's the copyright:
Copyright _ 1990 - 1998 Lee McLoughlin
Permission to use, copy,
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