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Re: Linux Vacation - Permission sought to change licence |
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Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:54:51 +0000 |
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Hi Loic!
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Loic Dachary wrote:
No, I am not and I have had continued discussions with Eric about this
matter. We have come to the decision that using the modified BSD licence
is in the best interests of all and would allow any modifications to the
Linux port to be back ported to the BSD one and vice versa. So hopefully
we can bring both trees back together with the only modifications
required are those for each branch.
I will resubmit within the next 24 hours.
Sean
> 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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