Re: Bug#278940: ITP: socket++ -- lightweight convenience library to handle low level BSD sockets in C++

2004-10-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:49:42 -0400 Dan Weber wrote: The new upstream (Herbert) is placing this in the LICENSE file as of the next release which will clarify for other distributions and packagers. This is great news, indeed. Obviously, the new upstream must make sure that each copyright

Re: firmware status for eagle-usb-*

2004-10-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:07:14AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Hardware is not part of Debian, and the fact that Debian depends on non-free pieces of hardware has never been considered to violate any of the above. (And, as I've said a few times, stuff tucked away in an

Re: mass bug filing for unmet dependencies

2004-10-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:50:29PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: So, following from this why you think that the motherboard firmware (the BIOS, which can be reflashed by users) or the CD reader firmware (which can be reflashed as well, with the right tools) and e.g. a

Re: Fwd: figlet license change from Artistic to Clarified Artistic or Artistic 2.0?

2004-10-31 Thread John Cowan
Note: lists.debian.org is refusing to allow me to subscribe: please forward this post. MJ Ray scripsit: Sublicensing means that you are still bound by the original licence, but you can offer any licence in the specified range to those you distribute to. Quite so, and I should have

Re: firmware status for eagle-usb-*

2004-10-31 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:07:14AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Hardware is not part of Debian, and the fact that Debian depends on non-free pieces of hardware has never been considered to violate any of the above. (And, as I've