Re: non-free web-page compiling?
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we stopped the maintainer database due the non-free part;
> boot-floppies has changed to the free part for sgml;
>
> And the debian www pages?
>
> wml depends on libgd-perl, and this is non-free:
>
> ramses:~# apt-get install libgd-perl
> Updating package status cache...done
> Checking system integrity...ok
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libgd-perl
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 67.4k of archives. After unpacking 315k will be used.
> Get ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk unstable/non-free libgd-perl [67.4k]
> Fetched 67.4k in 24s (2723b/s)
>
>
> Is it possible not to use GD.pm from the libgd-perl package or that
> the maintainer switch to GPL?
I thought that GD was non-free simply for what it does (draw gifs - it
uses the patented compression).
Since the web pages don't actually *use* GD, I don't see this as a
problem. (Sure, it's a little irritating to have to install a non-free
package, but you're not actually using it, I don't think).
Jules
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