Re: testing sources
On Friday 09 June 2006 17:50, A J Stiles wrote:
> On Friday 09 June 2006 16:51, rickh wrote:
> > Is there actually source for contrib and non-free?
>
> There will be source for what's in contrib {software that would be free
> but for a dependency on something non-free}, but not for non-free. If it
> had source, then it wouldn't be non-free .....
not always, and we have alredy discussed this matter: I use proprietary
software that is furnished as source (remember that I compiled a part of it
just yesterday). Of course, this matter relies on the correct behavior of
users. The fact that such things exist, testifies that correct users do
exist, otherwise the programmer would have long starved. If proprietary
software does not furnish the source, I do not buy it.
On the other hand, as far as chemistry is concerned, the only piece of
finished professionally (academically, if you wish) fully useful software is
mpqc. And I use it with profound thanks (although not yet installed until it
is clear that there are no problems for amd64 etch; I am still in doubt = St
Thomas)
cheers
francesco pietra
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> AJS
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