Re: Non-freeness

1999-12-21 Thread Joey Hess
J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > dnsutils is built from the bind source, which contains non-free code from > RSA labs dealing with secure DNS. I believe arrangements have been made with > the ISC that will make / have made it possible for bind's source to go in > main again. Actually, bind and dnsutils

Re: Non-freeness

1999-12-20 Thread Stuart Ballard
Stuart Ballard wrote: > > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 16:15:51 +, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > > Now, I thought that ssh (at least openSSH) was non-US/main - wasn't that > > > kind of the point of using openSSH rather than what we had before? > > > > Yes. Potato's

Re: Non-freeness

1999-12-20 Thread Stuart Ballard
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 16:15:51 +, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > Now, I thought that ssh (at least openSSH) was non-US/main - wasn't that > > kind of the point of using openSSH rather than what we had before? > > Yes. Potato's current "ssh" package is OpenSSH and

Re: Non-freeness

1999-12-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 16:15:51 +, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Is there any way to get information about what makes a package non-free, Yes. Reading the license, and possibly the mailing list archives. > Now, I thought that ssh (at least openSSH) was non-US/main - wasn't that > kind of the point

Non-freeness

1999-12-20 Thread Stuart Ballard
Is there any way to get information about what makes a package non-free, whether there are free equivalents, and what other caveats are involved? For example, vrms tells me that I have the following non-free packages on my system: communicator-base-461 communicator-smotif-461 dnsutils jdk1.1 navig