From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 00:01:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA20652 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:01:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA20645 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:01:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA28580; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:30:56 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601160800.SAA28580@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:30:56 +1030 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@sri.MT.net, tnaggs@cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za, Hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601160546.WAA03311@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 15, 96 10:46:05 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > [ Using ZIP for the pkg tools ] > > Hmmmm. OK, how's the quality of the code? > > OK. There are some pretty good names associated with it; I would expect that they'd have had something to say about it if it was crap 8) > > Do you forsee much difficulty > > in my taking chunks of the code and making it into a library API rather > > than a simple monolithic program? > > Do you want a library instead of just calling the zip/unzip utils and > parsing the output? Although I think the latter would be much slower, > it would avoid you having to GPL your package tools, and avoid > 'Yet-Another' GPL utility in the tree. Er, have you actually looked at the ZIP license? It's definitely not a GPL toy. Unpack the 'unzip' source archive and read the COPYING file. Just because it's called COPYING doesn't mean GPL 8) -- ]] 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 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[