gEDA-dev: New "geda" package for gEDA wide items?

[John Doty]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 4:33 PM, Ales Hvezda wrote:

> [snip]
>> I'm making up a patch to install Tomaz's mimetype icons, and don't  
>> know
>> where best to put it.
>
> Are these the icons which are licensed under a GPL-incompatible  
> license?
> What's the status of that?

Isn't GPL a strange and ambiguous license for something that isn't  
software?

>
>> I've started, by re-using the old "geda" subdir name, for a  
>> package of
>> things which belong to the whole suite.
>>
>
> No objections, but with the following pre-conditions:
>
> 	1) debian allows the reuse of a package name,
> 	2) it would be possible to reuse the geda package name for
> 	   a front-end, should a suitable replacement ever materialize,
> 	   and
> 	3) all content is properly licensed under the GPL.
>
>
> [snip]
>> Should I just stick the mime-types in libgeda, (they'll end up
>> installing with libgeda-common on a debian box), or should I make a
>> "geda" package?
>
> 	Please check with Hamish and get his two cents.  These icons
> and such do not really belong in libgeda, but there might be a debian
> reason why they should go into libgeda-common
>
> 								-Ales
>
>
>
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