Re: [toolbox-l] Is there a list of future ports of Linux software?

[Timothy J. B. <tj...@st...>]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Marc Stephenson wrote:

> Right  -  we have a list of about 29 requested packages which have passed 
> through at least one legal checklist (there are multiple things we have 
> to check).  There are some 40 or so more that people have requested that
> have not been approved for redistribution at all from IBM (a slow process
> for things which have patent grant language in their licenses).
> 
> Here are the 29 - these aren't necessarily the ones which we would attack next.
> Some we might never get to.  I'm torn about making a vanilla apache RPM
> available since there is a publicly available version in the IBM HTTP Server.
> 
> aalib bind ddd ethereal fvwm2 gd gif2png gnuplot groff IceWM netcdf openldap
> php pine ppp proftpd pstoedit psutils squid tgif traceroute trueprint
> xemacs xftp xmcd xmms xntp xpaint
> xv - this one might have license problems

I believe you would have a problem here - as you have probably already
noticed, this is not actually 'open source' but 'free for non-commercial
use'.  Folks like SuSe put this in with their 'commercial' code on their
big distributions...

> 
> Eventually I'll open "bug reports" to make all this public.  I have an
> internal aversion to opening "bug reports" that I know I can't turn around
> that quickly.
> 
> Here are some others that have been requested at one time or another.
> apache autotrace c2ps cdf dx fltk fox hdf hp2xx jpeg2ps latex libmng
> libwmf mesa Mgv monitor netpbm plotutils pnmtopng procmail sendmail
> sketch smake StarOffice t1lib wvWare xdir
> 
> The ones formally requested through the project page are openldap,
> ethereal, etherape, and plotutils.  If there is something that you
> would like to see, submit a bug report as David suggested.  That's
> the place that will get the most attention.
> 
> Marc

Hmmm, I am going to have to go off and look again...there must be a way to
contribute via building some of these packages or something....
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