Bug#381263: interesting
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Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just came across this application and was interested about the
> almost full yahoo protocol support.
>
> I am going to take a look over it and I shall decide if I'll package it.
>
This doesn't look good at all on the first look, I took the source
from sourceforge and unpacked it.
What I found doesn't look good on first sight:
eddy@bounty ~/usr/src/gyachi/gyachi-1.0.5 $ find . -type f -exec
file {} \; | grep -v -E
'(ASCII|GIF|JPEG|ISO-8859|gettext|MPEG|pixmap|text|message)'
./codecs/tsd32.dll: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI)
Intel 80386 32-bit
./codecs/tssoft32.acm: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (DLL)
(GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
./gyvoice/AUTHORS: empty
./sounds/yahoomail.raw: data
./sounds/buddon.raw: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
./sounds/pm.raw: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
./sounds/other.raw: data
./sounds/buddoff.raw: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
./sounds/buzz.raw: data
./sounds/reject.raw: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
To explain, the AUTHORS file is empty, although the source code
files seem to have the right format (I have looked in a few files).
There are a couple of codecs that are in the source and which have
no source. Not sure if those can be replaced with something free.
Although the project says GNU GPL on the Trove Map, the text of the
license is not in the package.
The raw files there don't bother me since they can be removed and
replaced by free equivalents or something in that area.
What I am most concerned is the codecs and the fact that the code
seems to be maintained at the edge of functionability and it looks
like the kind of source that comes from people that do not know/care
about free as in freedom, but about free as in beer.
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Regards,
EddyP
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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