Re: Debian: Virtual Machine screensaver

[Artur Rataj <arturrataj@gmail.com>]

Hello!

Is this group for topics like that? Or should I ask on some other
group? If yes, then on which one? Or could you tell me who is the
current maintainter of kde in Debian?

Artur

On 11/28/05, Artur Rataj <arturrataj@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Virtual Machine screensaver was removed from Debian, probably
> because of the
> advertising clause. The requirement for the advertising clause was
> canceled in 1999 by Berkeley, and the part of the screensaver is
> derived from the Berkeley source in 1988. Is the code free from the
> advertising clause? If yes, then could you please add the screensaver
> back to Debian? If not, then please tell me it, so that I can replace
> the code. Here are
> the comments from the part of the code uder the BSD license:
>
> /*
>  * Please note that as of July 22, 1999, the licensees and distributors
>  * are no longer required to include the above mentioned acknowledgement
>  * within advertising materials. For full details see
>  * ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
>  */
>
> /*
>  * This is derived from the Berkeley source:
>  *      @(#)random.c    5.5 (Berkeley) 7/6/88
>  * It was reworked for the GNU C Library by Roland McGrath.
>  * Rewritten to be reentrant by Ulrich Drepper, 1995
>  */
>
> Sincerely,
> Artur
>