Re: [cobalt-users] source of panel-utils

[Olivier Bornet <Olivier.Bornet@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

> I believe that these tools aren't GPL, and they're probably not allowed 
> for use outside of Sun's OS.  Looked into this regarding Qbalt.

It's really strange, because the RPM clearly say "License: GPL".  Must
we suspect that Cobalt guys don't know how to do correct RPMs ? ;-)
(if any Cobalt or Sun representative is on the list, thanks to give the
official answer).

> I think that the Cobalt patches in the main kernel tree area also 
> outdated, so this probably won't work as well as you'd imagine.

The patch I have is against the 2.4.20 kernel, so I don't think it's
outdated. Try to look at the debian package kernel-patch-2.4-cobalt if
you are interested. It can be found at
http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/kernel-patch-2.4-cobalt.html

> Only way to get around that would be to write some new LCD tools.

This is what I have started now. New LCD tools for very simple things,
and use LCDproc for more advanced things.

Good day.

		Olivier
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