Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:39:52 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Shigio Yamaguchi <shigio@tamacom.com> Cc: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU GLOBAL Message-ID: <19990919033952.CE26C1CA7@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:50:31 -0400." <199909181750.NAA03329@bellsouth.net>
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W Gerald Hicks wrote: > I don't see much of a problem, other than requiring its removal > from the FreeBSD source tree. Although FreeBSD has a 'contrib' > and 'gnu' hierarchy in the source tree, I believe the trend > should be to reduce the existing members there and also to avoid > adding new ones. > > imho, global (a fine software package) shouldn't have been in the > OS source tree anyway. To me, the proper place seems to be in the > ports collection along with many other development utilities. > > I don't agree with your perceptions of the GNU license but do > respect your decision as the author to choose whatever license > you wish. > > I'll be preparing a port for global this afternoon and submitting > a change request to have it removed from the source tree in favor > of using the port on FreeBSD. I think we should also remove the nvi patches as it contains global derived code. Since GPL is incompatable with the (bsd-style) nvi license and the global patches add code to nvi, then it would be better to remove the conflicting code. Also, have you considered doing something like what was used on /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.seq ? Will you be assigning the copyright to the FSF? (ie: you'll never be able to change your mind? 50 years is a long time...) Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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