On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 09:11:41AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Martin Schulze <joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE> wrote: > > Elvis is non-free and the author ignores all mail coming from us, > > both copyright mails as well as bugreports and fixes. > > Er... then why isn't it in non-free? Also, why is it our highest > preference editor? It was in former times. From the time it went f*cking colourful I abandoned it and switched to vim with which I'm quite happy. Elvis wasn't in non-free because unresolved problems with the upstream author, the debian maintainer got tired at no reaction. At the end he has orphaned it. It was removed from hamm/main by our release engeneer - which IMHO was correct. > Also, what aspect of the copyright notice puts it in non-free? See Bug#14953. > [The only thing I can guess is the "500 lines for your own project" > thing, which is wierd, but clearly doesn't apply to modified copies of > elvis which have been marked as modified] indeed. > This package was debianized by Erik Andersen andersee@debian.org on > Sat, 22 Nov 1997 03:14:13 -0700. > > It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/ > > Copyright: > > Elvis 2.1 Copyright 1996 by Steve Kirkendall > > Elvis 2.1 is copyrighted freeware. It is provided in the hope that it will > be useful, but with no warranty. > > You can distribute copies of it in either source form or binary form, > provided my copyright notice remains intact. If you distribute *MODIFIED* > versions, please mark them as being modified. > > You can use portions of elvis source code in your own projects. If you use > fewer than 500 lines, then no special permission is required. For 500 or > more lines, please obtain permission from the author at kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu; > in general, such permission will be granted without compensation. This fails #3 and #7 of the DFSG. (Bug#14953 from 16 Nov 1997) Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / *** Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows], joey@linux.de / / repartitioning Disk for Linux ... /
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