Bug#494863: ITP: transset-df -- manager for on-the-fly transparency changing in X
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:07 -0700, Daniel Moerner wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Daniel Moerner <dmoerner@gmail.com>
>
> Package name : transset-df
> Version : 6
> Upstream Author : Daniel Forchheimer <n04df@student.lth.se>
> URL : http://www.forchheimer.se/transset-df/
> License : 'Use however you want. I can't stop you': public domain
> parts.
>
> Copyright 1993, 1998 The Open Group
>
> Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this
> software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby
> granted without fee, provided that the above copyright
> notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
> notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
> documentation.
> [...]
You don't need to include the entire license here, saying X.org license
would be enough.
>
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : manager for on-the-fly transparency changing in X
>
> transset-df is a program that allows the user to change window
> transparencies on the fly. Supported methods include using window
> manager hotkeys, 'select by pointing' without actually clicking a window,
> and selecting by name and window id. transset-df is a modified version
> of xorg's transset and requires compositing to function. It is meant
> to allow a windowmanger-independent way to support transparency.
>
>
> I have been in contact with the upstream developer, who has expressed
> interest in bringing transset-df into debian. Unlike transset, it has
> had releases in 2005, 2006, and 2007, and is still being slowly
> developed upstream. The developer is willing to explicitly provide a
> better license if the public domain parts license is deemed unacceptable
> for Debian.
Public domain is typically considered bad, if you could have him put it
under the WTFPL or some sort of liberal open source license like BSD (or
even better, the X.org license for consistancy), it would be better.
William
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