Re: pbmplus/netpbm (was: Re^2: Shared graphics libs & header file locations...)
On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, James A. Robinson wrote:
> > I already looked at the sources as I was planning to package it.
> > (Indeed, I've already compiled shared lib versions on my machine.) None
> > of them have restricted copyrights. Some of them don't explicitly
>
> But wouldn't it not matter what the author's copyright is? I thought
> that, if it used Unisys's algorithm for compression, it was not
> something we wanted to be caught "selling" by putting it in the normal
> tree?
Right. I was talking about besides the gif stuff. I wasn't sure if
the gif stuff was the only reason it was in nonfree.
> > If you would like to package it, that's fine by me. If not, I'll be
> > happy to do it. Some points:
>
> It being netpbm? If you already have it built for shared, I would be
> more then happy to step away. :)
Yes, ok, I'll do it. I'll break it up into netpbm, netpbm-dev, and
netpbmgif. Only netpbmgif need go in nonfree.
I'll put the headers in /usr/include. The only reason to put them in
their own directory was to make code that used libgr easier to
compile. That's a pretty weak reason, as the user still has to know to
edit the Makefile to link a different library. So forget it.
Guy
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