[Savannah-hackers] Re: (fwd) Re: Linux Vacation - Permission sought to change licence

[Loic Dachary]

Sean Rima writes:
 > Please find reply from Eric Allman, original author of vacation.


        Hi,

        Apparently Eric Allman understood that you are willing to fork
the code. Don't you have the same impression ?

 > Sean
 > 
 > ----- Forwarded message from Eric Allman <address@hidden> -----
 > 
 > From: Eric Allman <address@hidden>
 > To: Sean Rima <address@hidden>
 > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:20:06 -0800
 > 
 > I don't think that's an "old" version -- I think that's closer to
 > an "antiquated" version.
 > 
 > Given that that's what you have, I can't stop you from doing your
 > own version.  I think it's destructive for the community however
 > to fork the code.
 > 
 > What is special with the Linux port?  Is there a good reason to
 > do a code fork?
 > 
 > eric
 > 
 > 
 > ============= In Reply To: ===========================================
 > : From:  Sean Rima <address@hidden>
 > : Subject:  Re: Linux Vacation - Permission sought to change licence 
 > : Date:  Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:32:41 +0000
 > 
 > : Eric Allman writes:
 > :  > I'm curious why you are unhappy with the BSD license.  It is about
 > :  > the least restrictive license around, and I'm a big believer in
 > :  > making things as free as possible.
 > : 
 > : I have a preference for the GNU GPL licence, and as I would like to
 > : add Vacation to the gnu tree, it is also a requirement for that process.
 > :  
 > :  > In any case, you'll have to make quite certain that you started with
 > :  > a vacation from the 8.8 release or earlier -- which actually seems
 > :  > somewhat unlikely, given that it wasn't distributed until 8.10.  If
 > :  > you dug it out from an old BSD distribution, then of course you're
 > :  > fine.
 > :  > 
 > : 
 > : I am not sure which one I have as I took over maintaining it. However
 > : the headers of vacation.c show:
 > :  * Copyright (c) 1983, 1987 Regents of the University of California.
 > :  * All rights reserved.
 > : 
 > : and
 > : #ifndef lint
 > : char copyright[] =
 > : "@(#) Copyright (c) 1983, 1987 Regents of the University of
 > : California.\n\
 > :  All rights reserved.\n";
 > : #endif /* not lint */
 > : 
 > : #ifndef lint
 > : /*static char sccsid[] = "from: @(#)vacation.c  5.19 (Berkeley)
 > : 3/23/91";*/
 > : static char rcsid[] __attribute__ ((unused)) = "$Id: vacation.c,v 1.10
 > : 2001/08/
 > : #endif /* not lint */
 > : 
 > : /*
 > : **  Vacation
 > : **  Copyright (c) 1983  Eric P. Allman
 > : **  Berkeley, California
 > : */
 > : 
 > : 
 > : Looking at this, it seems to be an old version :)
 > : 
 > : Sean
 > 

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