Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:57:59 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> To: <wpaul@freebsd.org> Cc: <iedowse@freebsd.org>, <alfred@freebsd.org>, <markm@freebsd.org>, <current@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD unfinished NIS+ implementation in Linux ? Message-ID: <20020217155122.J17787-100000@levais.imp.ch>
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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, <mb@imp.ch> <mbr@FreeBSD.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
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