Re: [Gnewsense-dev] No xv?

[Sam Geeraerts]

Richard Stallman schreef:
> I tried to install xv, but got a strange message
> saying there is no such package but some other package refers to it.

According to the xv website [1] a license fee must be paid for 
commercial use. According to a Debian bug report [2] distribution of 
modified binaries is not allowed, which is why it was removed.

The package that refers to it is x11-common, one of the X.org binaries. 
The reference is in Conflicts, meaning that xv is removed when X.org is 
installed.

[1] http://www.trilon.com/xv/pricing.html
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=98215