From owner-cvs-all Sun Jun 18 14:13:11 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2558637BAB0; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:12:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA95646; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:12:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:12:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "David O'Brien" Cc: SADA Kenji , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Global 3.55 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 09:13:29AM +0900, SADA Kenji wrote: > > > Could I import GLOBAL v3.55 into src/contrib/global ? > > > > Wasn't there some discussion that Global is now under the GPV and that we > > may want to stick with BSD-style licensed code? > > I remember that the author said he would maintain both versions (when he > announced he was bringing out a GPL licensed version) and one person > deliberately misunderstood. The reason, as I understood it, was because > the person (I won't name) simply wanted to move userland software to > ports, and saw this as an opportunity to further that goal. That was > after I made it clear then that the author had stated the intention of > maintaining both versions. > > I'll go back and ask him, see if anything's changed. I wrote to Shigio, and here's his verbatim answer. Based on it, I see no problem in updating global, as long as the BSD licensed version is used. ------------------------------------------------------ OK. I'll make a comment on the question. I will maintain two versions of GLOBAL: one is BSD GLOBAL and the other is GNU GLOBAL. But the substance is differ. BSD GLOBAL o distributed under BSD style license. o only bug fixes will be added. o version 3.55, 3.56, 3.57, ... (doesn't reach to 4.0). GNU GLOBAL o distributed under GPL. o new features will be added. o version 4.0, 5.0, ... (probably) I will maintain BSD GLOBAL as long as FreeBSD kept it in the sources. But I hope FreeBSD community to accept GNU GLOBAL, because it reduce my job. Since you have already accepted GNU tools as contrib/{gcc,bison,binutils,...}, there is no problem to import GNU GLOBAL as a contrib, I think. By the way, the latest version (GLOBAL-3.55) is BSD style licensed. If you have any questions, please mail to me. Thank you. -- Shigio Yamaguchi - Tama Communications Corporation Mail: shigio@tamacom.com, (Spare mail: shigio@pluto.dti.ne.jp) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message