Re: Help w/ Callback-2.04
On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > I'm using uugetty on my modems and it works just fine. It also has a nice
> > ring back feature that I find handy on one of my computers (I have an
> > answering/FAX machine and modem on the same line). mgetty didn't have
> > this feature when I looked at it a few months ago. Does it have it now?
>
> I don't know. The choice of "agetty" as our default getty was because it
> was free software and "mgetty" has a no-profit restriction on its license.
> Otherwise, we would have made "mgetty" the default. I don't see a "uugetty"
> package in the unstable directory - are you working on one? Is "uugetty"
> GPL-ed?
I'll take a look at license conditions for uugetty and if it's free I'd
be willing to take a shot at creating a package for it.
> There's been some discussion of switching the getty we use as the default.
> The one restriction is that it must be free software. I don't remember who
> the candidates were or where the discussion was when it ended.
Perhaps someone else who participated in that discussion could shed some
additional light?
Best regards,
Nick
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Nick Busigin nick@xwing.org
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