Re: AppleScript debian floppy maker script
"John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu> writes:
> this is more appropriate for debian-devel or debian-mentor
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:02:48AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> > Chris Tillman <toff@azstarnet.com> writes:
> > > A few months ago I put together a Debian floppy-maker script for usage
> > > on powerpc. The script depends on the MacOS-provided Applescript
> > > 'shell' and the scriptable Disk Copy program. The point was made
> > > before, that since these MacOS programs are not free (they come with
> > > all MacOS distributions), a script depending on them would not be
> > > Debian-distributable.
> >
> > If, for example, you wrote a GPL program for AIX that relied upon
> > their version of cc, I don't see how anyone could object: "IBM's
> > version of cc isn't GPL'd!"
>
> the issue is more of: though the floppy-maker script is GPL'd, and DFSG
> compliant, it _requires_(depends upon) something that fails the DFSG.
> thus, it would have to go into contrib, and cannot be a part of Debian
> proper.
Yes, this is a problem.
I would suggest putting it at a well-known location and linking to it
from the documentation. It also might be possible to put a link to it
from http://ww.debian.org/releases/woody or something. We can do all
this without including the script into boot-floppies and therefore
Debian proper.
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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