* Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060328 18:30]:
> On Sunday 26 March 2006 11:02, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> > Package: kdelibs-bin
> > Version: 4:3.5.1-3
> > Severity: minor
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > Attached you find two man pages for these small but potentially
> > useful applications. There are some more commands without a man page,
> > but I don't use them.
>
> Thank you for the manpages. I see that they are licensed under the GFDL.
> Since you don't allow Invariant Sections, etc., they are technically
> suitable for being shipped in Debian. However, the GFDL is still a
> problematic license, and we try to avoid it as much as possible. Would
> you be willing to relicense your manpages under the GPL? Most of our
> manpages are under that license already. Sorry for the hassle.
Never mind. I appreciate that the Debian projects makes a strong effort
to achieve good licensing. In preparing the attached revisions, I
noticed that there is a typo in (all?) of the other man pages in
kdelibs-bin - I am sure it should be "...Version 2 or any later
version..." ^^
Johannes
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<para><command>&dhpackage;</command> returns a reference to the first
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service/application and immediately returns its reference.
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<para>Print the application id. Without this argument, the
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<varlistentry>
<term><option>-l</option>
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<title>EXAMPLES</title>
<para><example>
<title>Return reference to a Kate instance</title>
<blockquote><literallayout>
KATE=`dcopfind -a 'kate-*'`
</literallayout></blockquote>
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<para><application>dcopstart</application>(1),
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<para><command>&dhpackage;</command> starts a KDE service (i.e. an
application
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reference for later use in shell scripts. If the service is not
scriptable
via DCOP, dcopstart returns nothing, but starts the service.</para>
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<title>OPTIONS</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--help</option>
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<title>Get the DCOP reference for a newly started konqueror
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<para>This manual page was written by &dhusername; <&dhemail;> for
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&gnu; General Public License, Version 2 or any later version
published by
the Free Software Foundation.</para>
<para>On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.</para>
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<para><application>dcop</application>(1),
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