[seul-edu] Re: ISO project--a different approach

["Douglas S. Blank" <dblank@brynmawr.edu>]

The CD should have an associated web site that points to updates, HOWTO
documentation (what to do with this CD?), late-breaking applications, the SEUL
app page, and misc other apps (like OpenOffice). 

The CD could also have HTML pages on it to make it easy to browse what is on
the CD, and link to other sites like SEUL and Schoolforge, and a package's home.

BTW, many people don't know what the heck an "ISO" is. Suggest just calling it
"Ed CD". And I would plan on having some kind of version number for the CD so
that sys admins giving advice over the phone can be specific about file names,
etc. Could be just #1, #2, ...

A version number (or date) could also be used to show people what apps have
changed since they got their CD.

-Doug

Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> said:

> Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:11:44AM -0500, Kyle Hutson wrote:
> > > Why not? Doesn't it essentially use the Mozilla license with
> > > s/Netscape/Sun/ ?
> > 
> > Hm, it is not as bad as I thought.  First off, I was reading old BTS
> > information.  There is a newer bug# that says it has been packaged for
> > unstable, so the outstanding ITPs are no longer relevant.
> > 
> >         See http://bugs.debian.org/101762
> > 
> > It is not Openoffice itself that has licensing problems, it is the Sun Java
> > that it currently depends upon in order to build (there is no runtime
> > dependency on non-free Java for the binary package, however).
> > 
> > Thus, Openoffice will appear shortly in contrib[0].  (It is delayed somewhat
> > because the initial upload to unstable/contrib was rejected due to some
> > problems with missing build dependencies in the packaging, but
> > conservatively it should make it in over the next month.)
> > 
> > The debian-openoffice team is working towards getting Openoffice to build
> > with a free Java implementation so it will go into main.  This will take
> > longer.
> 
> When I spoke with the Debian Project Leader a couple weeks ago,
> he mentioned that he didn't want to see OpenOffice or any other
> new C++ app that was heavy on shared libraries get into 
> stable until stable was switched over to an ABI-compliant c++ compiler
> and library.  For what it's worth.  Those who want OpenOffice in the
> meantime will just grab it from unstable.  (Heck, I grabbed it from
> the initial submitter's site months ago...)
> - Dan
> 



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