Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:48:51 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nate@sri.MT.net, Hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unzip for package tools (was re: FBSD 2.1) Message-ID: <199601290618.QAA09670@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199601290546.WAA07266@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 28, 96 10:46:32 pm
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Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > We have a vendor who will take FreeBSD, remove the networking > > support, remove the C compiler from their distribution, rebuild everything > > static, hunt down and dike out everything else even vaguely GPLish, and > > not rework their installation tools? > > Why do you have to remove the networking support? It's also quite easy Because otherwise you can say 'connect the system to the internet and FTP the code'. Please read what I posted. > (BTW - I was one of the original proponents of using zip, and still > think it's by far the best solution available at the present time. I > just wish we could get a more 'free' ZIP library.) I'm 100% in agreement with you here, I just think that you're being overtly pessimistic about the licensing 8) > Oh, and as far as doing the ZIP api, I'm not be the right person for the > job anymore. I signed a psuedo-NDA from Sun for the Java stuff, and it > turns out that Sun has implemented a ZIP API used in Java (for storing > the class libraries) which I now have the source for. There is the > possibility of 'contamination' which will preclude me from actually > authoring the ZIP api library. :( Dang. Is their API any good? 8) > Nate -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[
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