Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : cl-trivial-sockets Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Daniel Barlow <dan@telent.net> * URL or Web page : http://www.cliki.net/trivial-sockets * License : see below Description : a Common Lisp socket interface trivial-sockets is a portable socket interface that allows Common Lisp programs to open connected (client) stream sockets to network service (for example HTTP, FTP or SMTP servers) and communicate with them. It's intended mostly for "scripting" and interactive use. . Note that in the interests of simplicity and ease of porting, the functionality available through TRIVIAL-SOCKETS has been deliberately restricted. ==== Here is the license: Copyright (c) 2004 Daniel Barlow and contributors Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ``Software''), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ===== As the upstream author is a Debian maintainer, I've tried to contact him before this ITP, but without any success. I cc:ed him and I'll wait a month before asking for my sponsor to uploading the package. This is necessary as dependency for UCW [1]. The package will be included in the CL-Debian repository [2] and will follow the "Common Lisp in Debian Manual" [3]. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca [1] http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/ [2] http://cl-debian.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi [3] http://cl-debian.alioth.debian.org/clid/clid.html/