From: John Bradley <bradley@trilon.com>
To: "L. Gabriel Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>
Subject: RE: May I submit xv + jumbo patches to Livna ?
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:49:55 -0500

Glad to hear that xv is still of use to someone. :)

One of the nice features of "never updated" software is that
(eventually) all the more obvious bugs get patched -- and the program,
while primitive by today's standards, probably *screams*. (It ran pretty
well on computers that were 10-100 times slower than today's hardware.)

New features? Pah! Who needs 'em?!?  :D


Yes, please, go ahead, patch it as needed and distribute it anywhere you
think is appropriate. (I no longer follow the Unix/Linux 'scene', so I
defer to your judgement on that.)

--jhb

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: L. Gabriel Somlo [mailto:somlo@cmu.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 10:10 PM
> To: bradley@cis.upenn.edu
> Cc: xv@trilon.com; kirchh@trilon.com; newt@pobox.com
> Subject: May I submit xv + jumbo patches to Livna ?
>
>
> Mr. Bradley,
>
> I am a huge fan of your xv program, and have been using
> it on my home Linux box to view images such as family
> photos for over 10 years.
>
> I adamantly refuse to use other alternatives included by
> default with with my linux distribution (Fedora), mainly
> because of the nice and intuitive interface that xv offers.
>
> I am writing to you because I would like to submit xv to
> the Livna repository (soon to merge with RPMfusion).
> Livna (rpm.livna.org) is a repository of packages built for
> Fedora, but which could not be directly included into Fedora
> for various reasons (such as a non-opensource license).
>
> I believe adding xv to Livna would be mostly consistent with
> the spirit of your license: non-commercial distribution, not
> bundled with any other product (Livna is a repository of
> various software packages for Fedora, and does not sell or
> otherwise distribute CDs containing multiple packages).
>
> The only potential issue is that I would like to apply
> Greg Roelofs' jumbo patches available from
>
> 	http://sonic.net/~roelofs/greg_xv.html
>
> making the resulting build a "modified" version according
> to a strict interpretation of the license.
>
> I would like to have your blessing to proceed with this
> endeavor. I believe the end result to be in everyone's
> mutual interest, as a wider-scale distribution of xv will
> generate a wider pool of users who might potentially
> purchase a commercial license.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gabriel Somlo
>
> PS. The not-yet-submitted source RPM file can be found at
> http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/
> for your perusal.