Linux-Hams archive - April 1999: Re: sattrack
Re: sattrack
Hamish Moffatt (sejdviu.tqwfymuo@rides.com)
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 11:53:13 +1000
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 03:14:22PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
> I also asked Mr Bester regarding this, and he made his position VERY
> clear in his response: As far as he is concerned, even repackaging his
> software from the original .tar.Z archives to .tar.gz breaks the terms
> of his licnce, never mind packaging it up in .rpm or .deb packages...
>
> Basically, anybody who downloads other than sattrack-3.1.6.tar.Z has
> downloaded a pirate version as far as he is concerned...
Hmm, news to me. He granted me permission to create the Debian package
(the message text is in /usr/doc/sattrack/copyright), which means
a .tar.gz.
www.bester.com has no mention of SatTrack 3.x as far as I could see.
Hamish
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