On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:47:33PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > Hmm? Your comment heads up bug #158529; VCG is a package in main, that > has deliberately obfuscated code. Heh, thanks for the reminder. I weigh in on so many licensing discussions, I hope you'll forgive me if I don't have instant recall of all of them. :) > It seems that James Michael DuPont and the Free Software Foundation > has managed to get the source, and are releasing it as a GNU project. Sounds good... > VCG is apparently an alternative to graphviz, that they plan to link > into every GNU program, because actually outputting files, so that you > could run them through other programs is bad; someone, somewhere, > might actually use that data in a non-approved way. They might forget to > put a license on their perl script, say. Huh? -- G. Branden Robinson | You could wire up a dead rat to a Debian GNU/Linux | DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory branden@debian.org | test would pass it just fine. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Ethan Benson
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