From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 17 6:57:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.imp.ch (mail.imp.ch [157.161.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 878DA37B402; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 06:57:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from levais.imp.ch (levais.imp.ch [157.161.4.66]) by mail.imp.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1HEvHh16098; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:57:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:57:59 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Blapp To: Cc: , , , Subject: FreeBSD unfinished NIS+ implementation in Linux ? Message-ID: <20020217155122.J17787-100000@levais.imp.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, While looking at nis-utils-1.4.1 from linux, I found that that whole package is based on Bill's work. Intersting that everything there is GNU labled. What happened to the BSD copyright ? Or has it been GPL'd from the beginning ? http://freshmeat.net/projects/nis-utils The author even forgot to remove one part of a manpage: nis-utils-1.4.1$ more man/nis_db.3 .Em The TI-RPCSRC 2.3 source code distribution. .Sh HISTORY This implementation of the .Nm nis_db library was written for and is scheduled to appear in a future release of FreeBSD 2.x as part of a complete, freely available NIS+ client and server package. This library was written entirely from scratch: no Sun code other than the publically available NIS+ header files was referenced. Strange thing. Bill, did you ever allowed them to make it GPL only ? Looking at the code it should be possible to import some things and make a NIS+ client available. But only if it's not GPL'd. Martin Martin Blapp, ------------------------------------------------------------------ ImproWare AG, UNIXSP & ISP, Zurlindenstrasse 29, 4133 Pratteln, CH Phone: +41 061 826 93 00: +41 61 826 93 01 PGP Fingerprint: B434 53FC C87C FE7B 0A18 B84C 8686 EF22 D300 551E ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message