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Re: Bug#259142: ITP: rtfreader -- A portable application/ms-rtf parser



Sonia Hamilton <sonia@snowfrog.net> writes:

> * On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 04:07:55PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> > Version 1.8 (the current version) has a license that, if I understand it
>> > correctly, does not allow distribution of modified source code. Version
>> > 1.7 does not seem to allow distribution at all.
>> 
>> Oh, that's a pity.  Sonia, maybe you can ask them to release it under
>> a free software license?  If you find someone inside Microsoft to work
>> with on this issue, it's not entirely unlikely that you would succeed.
>> 
>
> Duh, I should have read the doco in more detail; that'll teach me to do
> 3 things at once :)
>
> I wanted to use this to learn how to do official deb packages; I'll
> probably put this on the backburner and look for another small/simple
> project to debianize. (Any pointers?)
>
> --
> Sonia                                           IM: savanna@jabber.org  

Read the list of packages up for adoption or being orphaned or
packages with request-for-packaging (wnpp bug list).

MfG
        Goswin




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