[3249] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Dealing with Linux Athena and restricted packages.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Apr 26 19:31:19 2002
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:31:13 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Greg writes, in release-77 [3247]. in reply to wdc's mention of the
Transcript package:
>I don't think we can get rid of all the restricted packages. Some
>options for dealing with those we can't get rid of:
> * Remove the restriction on the binary packages, reasoning that no one
>is likely to complain... it's unclear whether Adobe would care about an
>old version of Transcript
Unfortunately this is likely to be a significant problem. It comes with
an ancient, very restrictive license and even finding someone at Adobe
we can talk about this (let alone get permission to distribute it)
is likely to take many months. I speak from personal experience...
In view of:
>There is a free replacement for enscript, but I don't know about the
>rest.
and Aaron's later comment:
>>psutils (http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html) provides
>>much of the rest
I think we'd do much better with the alternatives; also as Aaron
points out, there are free Motif releases in both Lesstif and OpenMotif;
I've tried the latter and it works fine for me...
Alex
