Re: [Fink-devel] esound-0.2.35-8

2005-03-30 Thread Martin Costabel
RLD wrote: Problem getting binary for esound via apt-get upgrade: Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc//sound/ esound_0.2.35-8_darwin-powerpc.deb Size mismatch This usually indicates that you forgot to run apt-get update first. -- Martin

[Fink-devel] Re: License for .info and .patch files

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel E. Macks
David R. Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Here's my take on this licensing issue, for what it's worth. I think we should explicitly indicate that authors of .info files are *contributing* those files to the fink project when they submit them for inclusion in the fink trees. As contributed

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: License for .info and .patch files

2005-03-30 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel E. Macks wrote: | David R. Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: | |Here's my take on this licensing issue, for what it's worth. | |I think we should explicitly indicate that authors of .info files are |*contributing* those files to the fink

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: License for .info and .patch files

2005-03-30 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
How does Debian handle this? They use a similar info/patch system, right? And I've seen from other issues that debian-legal is very involved in licensing issues so I'm guessing they've thought this out. Hanspeter -- Hanspeter Niederstrasser, Ph.D.Dept. of Cell Biology

Re: [Fink-devel] License for .info and .patch files

2005-03-30 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 30, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: But once you filter out the idea (also not copyrightable, see Title 17, Sec. 102(b)), I suspect you'll find that the expression of that idea is quite limited by the technical and policy requirements of the info file. True, but that is not

Re: [Fink-devel] License for .info and .patch files

2005-03-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Trevor Harmon wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: But once you filter out the idea (also not copyrightable, see Title 17, Sec. 102(b)), I suspect you'll find that the expression of that idea is quite limited by the technical and policy requirements of the info file.

[Fink-devel] latest fink, convinience Bug?

2005-03-30 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 When you develop away and you alter an info file, check it into CVs and then do something like: fink list --maintainer=Darian Fink has detected that your package index cache is missing or out of date, but does not have privileges to modify it.