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Re: Netscape



In article <"2577 Mon Feb 12 12:16:16 1996"@bnr.ca> "brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca> writes:

> Who is doing the Netscape package for Debian?

Richard Kaszeta <kaszeta@me.umn.edu> expressed interest in providing a
debian package of netscape. Ask him whether he made some progress.

> I understand that there have been some problems with getting Netscape to
> allow us to redistribute their software.  

Neither did I understand their license ...

> How about the following solution:
> 
> The Netscape package would include any required setup files, but not the
> Netscape software itself.  The "postinst" would then require the Netscape
> archive in /tmp where it would unpack it and move the binary to the desired
> location.
>
> It's not ideal, but it should work!

Definitely not ideal. Sounds like you want to discourage potential
netscape users. A good idea ;-)

	Sven
-- 
Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/


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