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Re: Will woody ever become stable?



David Schleef <ds@schleef.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:31:04PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> > 
> >   gnuplot 100612 grave
> >   Maintainer: Thimo Neubauer
> >     Licence problems. We can't do anything until a new upstream release
> >     is available, as far as I can tell.
> 
> Is there a problem with releasing with a non-pristine tarball?
> Deleting the offending files and creating a new .tgz seems to
> be a better solution than waiting for a new release which might
> not happen soon.  I rewrote the problematic source file and sent
> it to the bug in November.

More specifically, what is the license problem with gnuplot?  It's
one-time author (John Gilmore) is a pretty durn staunch free software
guy...



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