Re: bigbrother
(cc'd to -qa)
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:24:16PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Friday 16 February 2001, at 2 h 12,
> the keyboard of Brian Russo <brusso@phys.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
>
> > would you have any objection to this package being removed from the
> > archive?
>
> No. Unless someone steps in (I received several offers to take over, which
> never yielded a package).
fair enough, it doesn't look like anyone's interested it.
as has been said before, it's non-free, has alternatives, etc.
not to mention those security problems.
is anyone interested in adopting it and maintaining it actively?
there's one element to the license of the latest version which i
think makes it impossible for it to be actively maintained.
3. REDISTRIBUTION
This software may not be redistributed without prior
written permission from BB4 Technologies Inc.
So, someone would have to ask them.
Also it says nothing about modification, and expressly denies
non-commercial use.
...
I propose it be removed from the archive.
>
> > non-maintained upstream,
>
> This is wrong.
my mistake.
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Brian Russo <brusso@phys.hawaii.edu>
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