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Re: RFS: python-harvestman



On 17-Feb-2006, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 07:33 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > HarvestMan is the only public-domain, multithreaded web-crawler
> > program written in the Python language. HarvestMan is released
> > under the GNU General Public License.
> 
> Public domain and the GPL are mutually exclusive. Please don't write
> this in the debian package description. Also, no need to put the
> licence in the description. Also, the fact that it is written in
> python is obvious from the package name, no need to stress that.

And even if the package name didn't specify the programming language,
it's still unimportant for the package description. You can use a tag,
if you feel some users might want to know.

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>

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