Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

[Jay Kominek]

> 3) A free English dictionary (www.dict.org).
> 
>I found a hint on
> 
>http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html
> 
>that such a dictionary exists and is desired to be included
>into Debian.  Is there any effort on this?  I would think
>about maintaining this package.

Someone else had mentioned that they were going to do this, but I havn't
heard anything from in a week or two.

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Re: package wanted: crashme

[Jay Kominek]

> Crashme is a program that runs random code in an attempt to crash your os. I
> lack net access at the moment, so I don't know where it is or what license
> it uses, but I think it would be nice to put this in debian, just so
> interested parties can pound on their systems. I don't intend to package it
> myself, though.

I looked at packaging this once, I forget why I never did.

I'll look into it again. (I suppose this is something of an intent to
package.)

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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose


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Re: x11amp

[Jay Kominek]

> mpg123 is in non-free because of its license.  I did not find any
> documentation anywhere that indicated that x11amp uses any mpg123 code. 
> (Where are you looking?)  Since it's released as GPL, it's free.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] jkominek/tmp]$ tar -tzf x11amp-0.9-alpha1.tar.gz | grep mpg123
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/mpg123.h
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/tables.h
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/tabinit.c
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/common.c
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/layer1.c
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/layer2.c
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/layer3.c
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/decode.c
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/decode_2to1.c
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/decode_4to1.c
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/mpg123.c
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/decode_ntom.c
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/huffman.h
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/dct64.c
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/Makefile.am
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/Makefile.in
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/equalizer.c
x11amp-0.9-alpha1/Input/mpg123/http.c

>From the README file:
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   Michael Hipp (email: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
   Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   for their mpg123 as we use as engine.. they have made an excellent work!
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The mpg123 copyright:

*
Copyright (c) 1995-97 by Michael Hipp, all rights reserved.
Parts of the software are contributed by other people, please
refer to the README file for details.

DISTRIBUTION:
This software may be distributed freely, provided that it is
distributed in its entirety, without modifications, and with
the original copyright notice and license included.  It may
not be sold for profit or as "hidden" part of another software,
but it may be included with collections of other free software,
such as CD-ROM images of FTP servers and similar, provided that
this software is not a significant part of that collection.
Precompiled binaries of this software may be distributed in the
same way, provided that this copyright notice and license is
included without modification.


The x11amp authors are violating the mpg123 license. They are not
allowed to relicense it under the GPL.

It is not free by any stretch of one's imagination.

- Jay Kominek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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