From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 20 9:21:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEBE614CC2 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA62489; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:20:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:20:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Mats Lofkvist Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU GLOBAL In-Reply-To: <199909200850.KAA16875@kairos.algonet.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Mats Lofkvist wrote: > Shigio Yamaguchi wrote: > > It seems that you misunderstand. > > Current GLOBAL(3.53 and earlier) is BSD-style licensed and it is true for ever. > > I agree with the plan to make a ports of GNU/GLOBAL in the future. > > But you need not remove BSD/GLOBAL from source tree. > > But bugfixes and/or developments needed by the core FreeBSD tools > will have to be done on the BSD licensed version of global > (since the core system isn't supposed to depend on ports), > isn't this going to lead to the split of the global development > in two? I think that Jerry, in using GLOBAL as an example to push his desire for a smaller FreeBSD, rather clouded the issue. I would wish that, if Shigio doesn't actually assign the copyright to the FSF, then he can release it under both copyrights, and please everyone. If Jerry wants to have FreeBSD be smaller, I think that this method wasn't a good way to start his campaign. Shigio was probably taken aback by Jerry's proposal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C programming, Electronics, 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 | communications, and signal processing. Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message