Re: [Debian-sf-devel] NonFree software and Debian SF

[Christian BAYLE]

Hi

You can use jpgraph with gforge package, but it's not even suggested.
I removed the experimental package from my sites, waiting the answer.
The gantt chart feature is not included in debian-sf package at all.

I sent email to jpgraph creator to clarify the situation, and hope a 
positive answer
jpgraph is ready to be uploaded in debian, but won't be in main if it is 
not free of course,
and even probably not in non-free.

Christian



James Michael DuPont a écrit:

> Dear Team,
>
> I was very suprised and very disappointed to see that 
> we now have non-free software in the debian-sf/gforge system.
> (JPGraph, or something like that)
>
> In any case, if it is not in free under debian, then we can and should
> not use it. I would like to see why this decision was made and who made
> it? 
>
> I would like to ask you to reconsider this decision!
>
> If you want gannt charts, here is a package that can handle them (under
> BSD, and can be converted to GPL)
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpaga/
>
> Here you can run gnuplot via perl
> http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dhechtma/techlab/gnuplot/
>
> The GNOME Guppi could be embedded on the server side,
> or ran on the client
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/guppi/
>
> MRTG / Multi Router Traffic Grapher
> http://www.mrtg.org/
>
> And the rrdtool :
> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/
>
> (in c)
> http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
>
> and from webmin (in perl)
> http://webminstats.sourceforge.net/
>
> I find it even crazy that you would use non-free software before using
> perl or python. 
>
> The guys from gnuenterprise.org and dotgnu.org will be sure to help out
> if needed. 
>
> I find that you should make a list of all non-free software in
> gforge/debian-sf and give them 30 days to offer it to you under a free
> license, otherwise we will post a public call for help to help replace
> any and all non-free software to the entire free software word.
>
> What do you think?
>
> mike
>
>
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