Thanks to everyone who provided comments. I've sent a polite email
detailing some of the licensing issues upstream. The person who does the
Debian packaging for ROOT upstream (Christian Holm Christensen) has said
to me by email that he would like to ITP ROOT for Debian, so I will not be
filing
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
Clearly the license is non-free due to the requirement that modified
versions not be distributed without the permission of the authors. My
question is this: if I were to obtain permission from the authors for
Debian to distribute packaged binaries
Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
Clearly the license is non-free due to the requirement that modified
versions not be distributed without the permission of the authors. My
question is this: if I were to obtain permission from the
Being unable to not fix security issues in a timely manner is a Bad
Thing. We should not support, endorse or otherwise support such
software. Not even in non-free (which is not part of Debian proper).
Just in case there's some confusion about the type of package, I believe root
is a C++
On 31-Jan-03, 10:17 (CST), Craig P Steffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having this package in Debian would be a tremendous asset.
I think that ROOT's license is acceptable for non-free. Whether
it's wise to add it is up to you, the maintainer, and the users. In
particular, if I were considering
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
Clearly the license is non-free due to the requirement that modified
versions not be distributed without the permission of the authors. My
question is this: if I were to obtain permission from the authors for
Debian to distribute packaged binaries
Scripsit Craig P Steffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's an analysis package, analagous to Gnuplot. I don't think that
it does any network stuff at all, so I don't think that security is
an issue.
Security is always an issue. If it's found out, for example, that the
program has a buffer overflow that
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