> Digital UNIX still (as of 4.0D) bundles a version of mh. As an
> OpenBSD developer, I'd really like to *not* see nmh GPL'd. Without
> getting into a huge religious war I see no compelling reason that
> nmh needs the 'protections' the GPL provides. A simple licence
> that says 'you can't claim this work as your own and you can't sue
> the authors' if my license of choice. In other words, a BSD/MIT
> style license.
A good deal of BSD code found its way into OS/2, and users pay for it, and
they do not get the modified source code, and the original authors (or
their eployers of the day) do not get paid.
At one time the man page for pppd on my Linux system was substantially the
same as the OS/2 information, right down to the bits IBM forgot to
translate (directory names, I think it was).
Unless you have a full wallet, getting TCP/IP and related fixes out of IBM
isn't simple.
Remember the sendmail relaying problems in 8.8.x? IBM wanted money to fix
it on OS/2.
Had the code been released under a GPL, competant users could have fixed
it themselves and released those fixes. What actually happened was someone
ported sendmail 8.9 iindependently.
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Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.
--
Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.
--
Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.
