Subject: Re: abiword rpms distribution
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2001 - 08:20:36 CST
According to Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@multicert.com>:
> On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 01:20, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > After that I ftp'd these rpm's to:
> > ftp://upload.sourceforge.net/incoming
>
> I will not put anything on sourceforge untill they clarify favourly and
> beyond any reasonable doubpt their good will towards free software.
They did.
See: http://www.advogato.org/article/376.html
comments by pmcgovern and chrisd
My opinion is that we can safely continue to use SourceForge the way we do.
> I can upload them to abiword's ftp site if there is an incoming
> directory, or an ftpuser for that, in the meanwhile.
We have non of that sort and don't intend. parsons bandwidth use should be
constrained. We can't afford put packages for download from here. Remember
that net connection is generously donated by our friends at SourceGear.
> Somebody else can do that what they want with the rpms from then on,
> though I do advise to wait for sourceforge to retract, but I cannot take
> an active position in favour of sourceforge currently, without putting
> at stake my ideals and connections with FSF Europe and ANSOL.
I have requested an project for AbiWord on savannah.gnu.org for that purpose
and it currently has not been acknowledged yet. (I got in the first place
some request for clarification)
Maybe should I try again.
Hub
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