Re: intent to package: amiwm

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

On 07-Mar-99 Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
>>>>>> "Shaleh" == Shaleh  <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:
> 
>     Shaleh> On 07-Mar-99 Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
>     >> Guess this is contrib? Or is it non-free?
> 
>     Shaleh> non-free.  Contrib is when it depends on other non-free
>     Shaleh> software.
> 
>     >> The software may be modified for your own purposes, but
>     >> modified versions may not be distributed without prior consent
>     >> of the author.  You may freely distribute patches against the
>     >> unmodified source code.
>     >> 
> 
>     Shaleh> You have to ask the authors permission to even put this in
>     Shaleh> non-free.
> 
> And if I do, and he agrees? Then it would be ok?
> 

Yup.  Well it will at least be allowed by Debian rules.  Whether it is Ok or
not is a matter of choice (-:

BTW I released oidentd package to the public.  Check out my postinst script.