For what it's worth:
I've been pretty strung out lately (illness, deadlines, lack of
sleep). Please take anything I mailed out yesterday with at least a
grain of salt. [Not that you shouldn't in any event, but especially
for Sep 28 95].
Sorry about that.
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Raul
Hm. There seems to be some confusion about who the author is.
Unfortunately, we can't be _too_ careful about copyrights. For the
CD-ROM distributiors, there is a significant risk of getting sued (and
losing the lawsuit) if we haven't verified that we have the right to
distribute these programs. Th
Bruce Perens:
> I think there was a copyright problem with "setterm" that caused us to
> remove it from the distribution a long time ago. If I recall correctly,
> it didn't allow distribution for a fee, which is of course essential to
> our CD-ROM redistributors.
Hmm, setterm is distributed on cou
Costa D Rasmussen:
I wish we had setterm. I noticed it was missing and thought I must
be ignorant about how to do without it.
What's the drill here? Do we need to lobby the author, write a clone?
setterm was written by Ted Ts'o. He thought it was such a trivial
program that it didn't
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> What's the drill here? Do we need to lobby the author, write a clone?
First, research the current copyright status and confirm it with the author.
Then, if you have to, lobby the author. Only if that fails, write something
better and GPL it.
Bruce
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-- Attent
I wish we had setterm. I noticed it was missing and thought I must be
ignorant about how to do without it.
What's the drill here? Do we need to lobby the author, write a clone?
Costa
I think there was a copyright problem with "setterm" that caused us to
remove it from the distribution a long time ago. If I recall correctly,
it didn't allow distribution for a fee, which is of course essential to
our CD-ROM redistributors.
Several of the programs in util-linux had ambiguous or p
Package: miscutils
I can't find the setterm program (distributed as part of util-linux)
anywhere in the distribution (the output from "grep setterm Contents"
is empty, and this program is not on my freshly installed, fairly
complete Debian system at home).
It is not currently part of any package,
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