Re: Intent to package: "birthday"
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 04:04:42PM +0000, Andy Mortimer wrote:
>
> and gives output something like
>
> Vicky is 23 years old in 1 week and 4 days' time.
> The Millenium in 9 months, 2 weeks and 5 days' time.
>
> depending what day it is!
Nice!
> I still haven't quite decided what license -- GPL or Artistic,
> probably -- to release it under, but it will definitely be DFSG-free.
Use GPL and we can wrap it Gtk. Or do what perl does, offer both licenses!
You don't have to use a single license only.
> (Although I'm only releasing it as a Debian package, because that's
> what I know, I have no objection to it being RPM'd or uploaded to
> anywhere else; this is not a philosophical point! Do we have any
> policy about non-Debian-specific packages where the canonical location
> for the source is the Debian archive?)
We don't need one. If it is dfsg free, you can't stop anyone from getting
the official source from Debian and packaging it for RH or whatever anyway.
Thanks,
Marcus
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