New extra packages and yum repository

[Nils Philippsen]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 01:11, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Chris Ricker wrote:
> 
> >> I'd like to see the RSS-GLX included in redhat, or at least one of the
> >> fedora servers.. I have seen rss-gls packages by at least one other
> >> person, and by Ximian too...
> >> 
> >> > - rss-glx-0.7.6-1 (screen savers, need new ImageMagick packages from
> >> 
> >> If we're going to ship screen savers, we may as well ship good ones...
> >
> >As a counter-argument, though, there are enough problems with the GL-based
> >xscreensaver savers crashing X servers already, without adding more eye
> >candy into the mix which'll do the same (and if you look in bugzilla, you'll 
> >find there are already bug reports in there from RSS crashing X servers)
> 
> I'm a bit mixed feeling about this.  On one side, I'm kindof a 
> bit curious as to wether the rss screensavers are 100% copyright 
> clean, and comments on their website or in the source before 
> triggered my legal warning alarm, although I have no idea what it 
> was now as that was a year or more ago.

I guess you mean this sentence on the web site:

"After some licensing problems preventing inclusion in XScreenSaver
(which is BSD/X licensed), my original intent, I've been asked to
release my work in a standalone package."

I read this like this: jwz doesn't want GPLed code in xscreensavers so
rss-glx has to be released separately.

Can you elaborate what you mean with "comments [...] in the source"?

Nils
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