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Re: Taking up packaging xdir



(Alex Yukhimets) wrote:
> Are you talking about llnlxdir? 

That is right.

> That's a nice program, but I don't
> remember the license of this thing, it may cause some problems.

<Begin Copyright>

It was downloaded from ftp://ftp-lc.llnl.gov/pub/ia/llnlxdir/

Copyright:

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    This work was produced at the University of California, Lawrence
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    Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its
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    the user interface remain unchanged.  The title to copyright LLNL
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    of California and users agree to preserve same. Users seeking the
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<End Copyright>

It is not GNU.  Could some learned soul tell me if this will fit into the
Debian Manifesto?  xftp, which is distributed under a similar (same?)
license is part of 'main'.

> Also, if this is llnlxdir you are talking about, are you going to package
> -?motif or try this with lessitf?

I have compiled it with lesstif (gcc spit out many warnings but compiled). 
It seems to work OK.

S.
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