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

[James Michael DuPont]

ok. Sorry. I am jumping to the gun here. Please disregard my mail then
on that point.

please advise, what do you think about the other packages suggested in
my mail? Any particular preference.

--- Christian BAYLE <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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> >James Michael DuPont
> >http://introspector.sourceforge.net/
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