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Bug#572458: ITP: hbaapi -- SNIA HBAAPI library



Hi Bernd,

On Friday 05 Mar 2010 05:15:04 Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> > Couldn't find the complete license on the homepage. There is one on
> > Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/SNIA_Public_License
> 
> If I remember right that license information is based on some post of one
> of the authors on some mailinglist, or something similar. If necessary I
> can dig for it. 

That will be great. At the moment, I can't find any other place for the 
license. The links mentioned in the source code are invalid.

> Also I think the code is not really maintained.

Yes, There does not seem to be any update since 2002. To start with, I will 
just look at what Fedora has done and do the same.

> The other thing you should do is to provide a hbaapi-source package, as
> hbaapi is necessary for thinkgs like hbaping, which needs proprietary
> binary libraries to be useful with some FC cards. Having a -source image
> would make it more easy to build appropriate packages, may be for
> non-free.

Yes, sure.

Regards,
Ritesh
-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

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