On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 10:59:04AM +0800, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > I intend to package Improved mod_frontpage in Contrib. It is an Apache > > > licenced clone of the Microsoft Frontpage server extensions. It is available > > > at http://home.edo.uni-dortmund.de/~chripo/install/index.html. It is at > > > version 1.5.1. > > If this software is available under the Apache license, why does it need > > to go into contrib? > Actually my description is a bit inaccurate, it is only a clone of the > Apache module that comes with the Microsoft Frontpage server > extensions. The rest of the MFSE are still required, and they are of > course non-free. Well, if the mod_frontpage implementation is itself DFSG-compliant, I think that it's still useful by itself (and can therefore be placed in main): many times, frontpage users want to publish to a frontpage-enabled server because they're too stupid to figure out how to reconfigure their software to use ftp, yet they don't actually make use of the MFSE in their site. In any case, I consider FrontPage and its extensions sufficiently ugly that I'm not going to champion them if you decide to upload to contrib -- just curious what your reasoning was. :) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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