Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 18:31:47 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: james@nexis.net (James FitzGibbon) Subject: Re: Use of your strptime(3) code (fwd) Message-ID: <19970604183147.OA09251@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970604064505.9013B-100000@nexis.net>; from James FitzGibbon on Jun 4, 1997 06:58:47 -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970604064505.9013B-100000@nexis.net>
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As James FitzGibbon wrote: > This company (Powerdog Industries) have a strptime implementation that > looks like we could use. It's already been added to NetBSD (sometime > after v1.2 as far as I can tell) I thought about adding it to the regular libc, but as i've been partways through, i noticed the overly restrictive copyright again (no modifications allowed whatsoever). It is plain unacceptable with this copyright, and unless Powerdog can make this less restrictive, i consider rewriting it from scratch (sigh). The need for modification arises out of two things: . adding localization (it basically can share the same localization hooks strftime is using), . fixing bugs like the incompatible use of %C, which means something totally different in BSD, . adding missing specifications. Good that you've got an email address for them, the source doesn't have one. If they agree to delete the `without modifications' clause from the copyright, i can probably make what i've got so far commit-ready within one hour or so. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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