Subject: Re: Binary-only packages

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 96 08:41 PDT

> Is contrib on CDs, too?

We don't control what is on CDs, the CD manufacturer does. There is no
reason to leave contrib off of a CD, I guess.

> My personal problem is LyX, a fine program under GPL. But it requieres
> xforms which is available only as binary. Does this create any problem, if
> xforms is put in contrib?

I don't think that's a problem. IF xforms is available only as a binary
and it's useful, consider taking some time to create a GPL clone of it. 

	Thanks

	Bruce
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From: Lars Wirzenius <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 20:54:48 +0300

> and it's useful, consider taking some time to create a GPL clone of it. 

Actually, since there's a lot of free widget sets, it might be easier to port
LyX (and other XForms programs) to one of them, instead writing yet another
widget set.

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From: Doug Geiger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:07:56 -0400 (EDT)

> reason to leave contrib off of a CD, I guess.

When I got PHT's Mo'Linux CD w/Debian 0.93R6, it included contrib.
Next release of abuse will be in the contrib section - it'll come out
later this week.

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From: Michael Meskes <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 11:38:36 +0200 (MET DST)

> reason to leave contrib off of a CD, I guess.

Then I see no problem in moving xforms there. Shall I create a new package
or do we just move it? Also do I have to add 'Section: contrib' to the
control file, or does it remain 'Section: x11' with a contrib entry in teh
changes file?

> I don't think that's a problem. IF xforms is available only as a binary

Good.

> and it's useful, consider taking some time to create a GPL clone of it. 

Good joke, Bruce. :-)

The static library is 450K. Where shall I take the time to write this?
Besides I don't have enough knowledge to do that anyway.

Michael

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