Re: Rick Taube's Grace ?

[vogelrl <vogelrl@ct.metrocast.net>]

On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 10:17 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:13:16PM -0400, vogelrl wrote:
> > 
> > Ubuntu apparently has a package for Heinrich Taube's Grace program. 
> > 
> > Is there any reason why it couldn't also be in Debian ?
> 
> In most cases the reason is that simply somebody has to do the packaging
> work.  In the Blends effort we try to gather hints like this as so
> called "prospective packages" in the relevant section.  If you are
> interested in this program please be so kind and prepare a paragraph
> mentioning the fields:
> 
> Packagename:
> Homepage:
> License:
> Link-to-Ubuntu-package:
> Description: <short description>
>  long description
> 
> You might also like to file an RFP/ITP bug against the virtual wnpp
> package.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
> 
> -- 
> http://fam-tille.de
> 
> 

Hi Andreas,

Thank you for your note.

Grace, apparently, is the GUI for Common Music,

The homepage, http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/,  mentions that the CM
is released under the LLGPL (Lisp Lesser General Public License). The
download contains zipped files for Ubuntu and Fedora, but also source
code (look for 'others').

For an excellent description of this software, see Taube's book: Notes
from the Metalevel.

I would suggest that Debian should follow the CCRMA development efforts:
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software They are doing excellent work...but
for some reason only for Fedora and CentOS. 

Best Regards,

Bob