[Magic-dev] Magic: Licensing and embedding readline libraries

[Aanjhan R]

Hi Magic Devels,

I am again back with more questions. A debianised package has been
uploaded at debian mentors for review so that it could get into Debian
soonish. There have been a couple of review comments which I would
need your help to resolve.

1. The package as such seems to be licensed under Berkeley License
with an embedded source copy of GNU Readline which is GPL. It would be
great if I can get hold of a proper license notice for MAGIC.

2. There seem to be some issue with embedding copies of readline src
in the package itself. Being an upstream developer of GNuSim8085
myself, I completely understand that this would make the package
completely independent/self contained. But do you guys suggest any
other way out. Like checking for readline in configure or some such? I
am not sure whether I am talking sense but if we are able to remove
this embedding it would be much easier to get the package into
Debian/Ubuntu soonish.

For the complete thread of the review comments:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.mentors (check the one
with subject RFS: magic)
Debian Upload: http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-packages?action=details;package=magic

Ubuntu Hardy heron users can install magic now by adding the below
lines to their sources.list file and doing a sudo apt-get update and
installing the application.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/aanjhan/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/aanjhan/ubuntu hardy main

Review comments welcome! and thanks for all the support you people
have provided. Looking forward to the same in the future too.
-- 
Aanjhan
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