On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 04:24:46PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:35:56 -0500 > Keith Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By the way, is there some reason Debian can't adopt the Libranet > > installer and tweak it for the Debain defaults intead of the Libranet > > defaults? The installer is very nice. > > Libranet is a commercial distro (and a very good one too - it's what I > use). Anyway, the installer and configuration utilities are the property > of the owners, so Debian can't simply adopt it without permission. The > free version 2.0 that you downloaded is free because the Libranet owners > have generously chosen to make it so (presumably, to encourage you to > eventually purchase the newer version 2.7, or the upcoming 2.8). > However, just because 2.0 is available free doesn't mean that it was > released under the GPL, as Debian is.
Debian isn't released under the GPL. Bits of it are, certainly. > You can, of course, continue to upgrade your Libranet installation with > apt-get. I'm not real sure what happens when you mix and match programs > from gcc 2.95 with binaries that were compiled under gcc 3.2. Maybe > someone else more technically astute can answer that. With programs written in C it's fine, but it won't work with C++. However, as long as you're only dealing with packages then the transition plan we're using at the moment should still be effective. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
