AMP packages

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:31:47PM +0100, Kilian Krause wrote:
> Hi J=E9r=F4me,
>=20
> Am Donnerstag, den 17.02.2005, 13:01 +0100 schrieb J=E9r=F4me Warni=
er:
> > Le lundi 14 f=E9vrier 2005 =E0 22:57 +0100, Kilian Krause a =E9cr=
it :
> > > Hi Jos=E9,
> > >=20
> > > >   If flashplayer is needed to run that, it should go to contr=
ib (if it
> > > > is DFSG compliant) or to non-free.
> > >=20
> > > Sorry, but no. It's fully free and only the display console (wh=
ich can
> > > be on another PC, on another network, on another OS) needs to b=
e flash.
> > > Thus this is no depends and consequently not contrib.
> > The flash sourcecode needs to be "compiled" using a non-free "com=
piler", no?
> > Either the source is not available (it's non-free), or it should =
go to
> > contrib.
> > Am I wrong?
>=20
> honestly, I haven't checked, but i guess Tzafrir could tell us abou=
t
> this. From my expectations how this works, the part of delivering S=
WF is
> free, open source and regularly compilable. It's the displaying cli=
ent
> that's the problem. (At least that's what my point was based on).
>=20
> Tzafrir, do you reckon this is correct?

A bit more complecated: There is a subdirectory ming-source which sho=
uld
allow rebuilding the swf file using ming. ming appears to be free
software (LGPL according to the Freshmeat entry:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ming/

libming was a package in stable, but I don't see it anymore in unstab=
le.

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