Hi, On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 10:19:26AM +0100, Mark Howard wrote: > > I'm interested in the pacwars2 packaging. I've been looking at the site > and it looks like they've gone for the full GPL license, so that > shouldn't be a problem. That part isn't, but there are other problems. They use some non-free libraries for various things, IIRC, although I don't remember the details. I do remember one particular issue and that's the scripting library. That is not really non-free, only it has a lack of a real license, which too makes it unsuitable for us to (re)distribute. I tried contacting the original author of the library about it but did not get any response. Another thing was that they just used some copyrighted material for some media. This should get corrected first, too. The various issues didn't motivate me very much to work on it anymore. That, combined with the fact that the preliminary packages I built turned out to be highly unstable (deadlocked threads and crashes more often than not) made me decide to not continue packaging. > I'm not yet a debian developer, in fact this will be my first package, > however I am interested in becoming one and have been following the > devel and mentors mailing lists for some time. If you continue the work, I'd be willing to sponsor these packages. > Filip: can you please send me any files you started work with, Sure. Give me a couple of days to figure out where I left them. > particularly the paragui package. Also, please let me know your current > status with paragui - last year you said you wanted to maintain > packaging these. This was only just because pacwars2 needed it. It's been packaged by someone else by now. Since the version at that time was quite a bit older, there may be some work needed to update to the current API if that hasn't been done upstream already. Regards, Filip -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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