[Gnewsense-dev] Re: unclear licence of AMSLatex (fwd)

2009-09-27 Thread Benedikt . AHRENS
to directories as well? In all systems following the TDS, path does matter, and moving a file from $TEXMF/tex/latex/ams/ to $TEXMF/myengine/latex/ams/ will make it inaccessible for LaTeX in a usual setup. So far for the comments. Thanks a lot for caring about our concerns. Greetings Benedikt

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Is VLC free?

2009-08-21 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
crap0101 wrote: Il giorno mer, 19/08/2009 alle 12.46 +0200, christophe.ja...@ouvaton.org ha scritto: Transrate directory which contains putvlc.h has been deleted 14 hours ago, see http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=29d2ca92fc94a9407ed829539fe3403c6499970e. Then future

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Is VLC free?

2009-08-17 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
Ted Smith wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 21:15 +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote: Any volunteers for asking the VLC guys about where they got it and why they think it can be used in free software? I hung out in #videolan for a bit, and someone eventually linked me to this ffmpeg list posting:

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-13 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
Karl Goetz wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:16:31 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: Sam Geeraerts schreef: Karl Goetz schreef: I have changed the status of the bug[1]. Its now NEEDSINFO, BLOCKER, target release deltah (2.3). I'll adjust the status when we get word back from

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-04 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
Hello, I finally received an answer to my request to the AMS. Their licensing will be unified. I think that the issue is a bit similar to the Mozilla story: it is more a question of trademark than of copyright. Modified versions may not carry the same file name (which is also used as package

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Questions on the update system

2009-08-02 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
aurelien wrote: On sam, 2009-08-01 at 10:37 +0200, Benedikt Ahrens wrote: aurelien wrote: On sam, 2009-08-01 at 10:16 +0200, Benedikt Ahrens wrote: Hello Aurelien, this update will not delete the 2.6.30 kernel. It will only replace the 2.6.24 by another 2.6.24. ben aurelien wrote: Hi

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Questions on the update system

2009-08-01 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
Hello Aurelien, this update will not delete the 2.6.30 kernel. It will only replace the 2.6.24 by another 2.6.24. ben aurelien wrote: Hi, The update system alert me that there's update for the system. It want to update kernel 2.6.30.3 2.6.24.24 The system alert don't look by itself on

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Questions on the update system

2009-08-01 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
aurelien wrote: On sam, 2009-08-01 at 10:16 +0200, Benedikt Ahrens wrote: Hello Aurelien, this update will not delete the 2.6.30 kernel. It will only replace the 2.6.24 by another 2.6.24. ben aurelien wrote: Hi, The update system alert me that there's update for the system. It want

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-07-29 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I haven't had any answer from the AMS yet. Later today I'll contact the Debian maintainer for some news. ben Karl Goetz wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:51:04 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: Karl Goetz schreef: HI all, Would

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Lemote yeeloong laptop - where my root partition is

2009-07-14 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
Hello, The command $ mount shows all mounted devices and their mount points. It is similar to looking at /etc/fstab but has the advantage that it also shows mounted usb memory sticks etc. Btw: Questions like this should go to gnewsense-users, i suppose. ben Andreas Salwasser wrote: Hi,

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Report of non-free software in gNewSense

2009-06-09 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
This is an excerpt from the changelog, mentioning the problem with copyrighted software: ( see http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=618781group_id=2174 ) (* Changes: Free Pascal Compiler Version 2.2.2