On Apr 14, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Mario Castel=E1n Castro wrote:

> I think you have no idea of the slide effects of that "only microchip
> products" clause ...

This is the "in order to make this a debian package, all the licenses
of all the pieces involved have to be both well documented and  =

compatible
with what debian thinks is an appropriate license."  So if the license  =

for
PICKit2 is "inappropriate", it can't become an official "package", and  =

anyone
who wants to use it will have to, you know, actually download software  =

on
their own or maybe even compile from source!

The Arduino crowd got dinged recently on a similar packaging effort  =

because
their trivial example sketches (blink.pde and etc) weren't clearly  =

labeled
with an appropriate license.

In order to avoid straying off-topic, I will avoid commenting on how  =

stupid
it is to have taken control from money grubbing software publishers  =

and given
it to money grubbing lawyers instead.

BillW


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