On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would like to > > find a > > new image viewer to use. > > Why is this happening? Can't we continue to use the current version? Licensing problems, basically. The developer doesn't permit the distribution of modified binaries, which means we can't apply the necessary patches to make it compliant with Debian policy. See bug 96458, as well as the discussion at http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy-0105/msg00134.html It's unfortunate that the author has placed that restriction on a very useful piece of software. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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