Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: serious I recently visited <http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/> to check up on their progress/status, since they are the upstream authors for all of my JX-based packages.... I found this: <http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/nps/license.php>. The packages that are currently languishing in non-free are licensed such that we can safely distribute them. Furthermore, I still have written permission from the authors to package and distribute the versions that are currently in our archive. However.... This new license is fairly nasty. Somehow, I doubt they would cause the Project any trouble with the versions we currently have. As a matter of fact, I doubt they _could_ give us any trouble with the current versions, given that I recieved written consent to package and distribute their software. However, the stance NPS took with their new license makes me concerned that they might _try_ to cause us some trouble.... So, unless someone wants to take these over, please remove them permanently from the non-free archive: (o) jx-lib (o) code-crusader (o) code-medic (o) arrow (o) notebook (o) systemg (o) glove Cheers! -- ___________________________________________________________________ / Clay Crouch, UNIX Weenie ;^> | <danno@danno.tzo.com> \ | Debian Package Maintainer | <danno@debian.org> | +---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | 1024D/7D2AD631: 2319 2356 FEDF 4631 63F3 762A E443 1C2A 7D2A D631 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "Some [people] are always trying to ice skate uphill." -- Blade | \___________________________________________________________________/
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