On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:42:56AM -0400, Peter Teichman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:03:07AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote: > > Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is > > similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to > > make packages of it, and I have uploaded it into Debian. It is placed under > > the GPL. See http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ for more info. > > Skipstone appears to have some licensing problems. It has no overall > license file, just comments in its source. I talked with the author on IRC and verified that it is GPL. He's making a new tarball with a COPYING file, he was just lazy and didn't add it since there were comments in the code.
> Also, the Mozilla rendering component is released under the MPL, which > is incompatible with the GPL. Galeon had to relicense with an > exception clause - take a look at the current Galeon tarball for the > COPYING.README file. Mozilla was relicensed under the GPL... wouldn't everything be relicensed? In any case, I just talked to the author on IRC (such a wonderful thing), he's agreed to add the exception clause as well (he just copied Galeon's COPYING.README file). I'll be uploading a fixed version in about 2 minutes :) -- Brian M. Almeida Linux Systems Engineer | http://www.winstar.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer | http://www.debian.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Janet Reno fissionable quiche Ruby Ridge DES PLO COSCO Nazi Cocaine genetic Ft. Meade Waco, Texas David John Oates Roswell Craig Livingstone ammunition nuclear Albania Clinton Delta Force -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
