Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:48:19 +0900 From: Shigio Yamaguchi <shigio@tamacom.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: shigio@tamacom.com Subject: GNU GLOBAL Message-ID: <199909181348.WAA02472@tamacom.com>
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I'm the author of GLOBAL source code tag system. I have decided to release next version of GLOBAL as a GNU software. It means that it will be released under GPL instead of BSD license. This decision was made by practical reason, not by doctrine reason. It is advantageous for GLOBAL, because o GNU softwares are distributed to widespread environments. o The developers of GNU software pay some attention to making the program work well with the rest of GNU software. That makes it easy for GLOBAL to reach the goal, that is, becoming a common source code tag system in various environments. Since FreeBSD already includes GNU softwares, it seems no problem. GLOBAL itself will be as it be. I'm concerned about whether or not FreeBSD community accept GNU GLOBAL. I hope you not to reject it, because the rejection splits GLOBAL and it makes it hard for GLOBAL to be a common source code tag system. By the way, I have released GLOBAL-3.53 today. <http://www.tamacom.com/unix/>; It supports C++, XEmacs and WIN32 and includes improved gtags.el. (Of course, it's BSD licensed). Thank you. -- Shigio Yamaguchi - Tama Communications Corporation Mail: shigio@tamacom.com, WWW: http://www.tamacom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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