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April 2005

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Re: [suse-ham-e] ham radio files missing
by Curt, WE7U 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 Joerg Reuter wrote: > > Hmm, IIRC Xastir has a licence issue... > > Ah, yes, found it. rotated.c states: > > /* xvertext 5.0, Copyright (c) 1993 Alan Richardson > * (mppa3(a)uk.ac.sussex.syma) > * > * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software > * and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is > * hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice > * appear in all copies and that both the copyright notice and > * this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. > IMHO (however, IANAL) this is is incompatible to the GPL ("without > fee" collides with section 6 of the GPL: "You may not impose any > further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights > granted herein.") > > Thus I feel reluctant to package Xastir, despite Xastir being an > excellent program... I emailed Joerg directly regarding this issue after someone sent me a link to this message (I wasn't subscribed to this list at the time). The Xastir development team has been wondering why a _very_ old Xastir version was included in SuSE for many years, and why Xastir was dropped from the distribution recently. The above copyright notice _is_ compatible with the GPL. A few Google searches using some of the wording contained in the above text will prove that out. I sent relevant links to Joerg, but since he's doing the ham stuff in his spare time it might be a while before he takes a look at it. There were some install directory changes some time back which make upgrades from the old versions more difficult. Please, if distributing Xastir with _any_ distribution, choose one of the latest 1.4.2 development snapshots: They are very stable and have some particularly good bug-fixes in them. I often recommend SuSE to new Xastir users as it's the distribution I tend to use most and what I do Xastir development on. It's a shame SuSE doesn't distribute Xastir at this point. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!"

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ham radio files missing
by Jim Hartzell 18 Apr '05

18 Apr '05

Hi all, I was just looking at the package list for SUSE 9.3 PRO on Novell's web site. I cannot find the "Ham radio" packages that are in the rest of the 9.x releases. They are not in the main package list nor are they in the DVD only list. Are they available, or did they get dropped? If not anybody know how to make a tarball into a suseRPM? Jim WA3UQD

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