Bug#382175: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2009-02-22 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:32:35PM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: I'm here at ApacheCon with Simon Phipps and he said that Sun would be delighted to help Debian resolve the RPC licensing problems. He wanted to note that the Free Software Definition did not exist at the time when Sun released to

Bug#382175: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Simon Phipps: On Nov 5, 2008, at 23:23, Michael Banck wrote: - portmap.c /* @(#)portmap.c 2.3 88/08/11 4.0 RPCSRC static char sccsid[] = @(#)portmap.c 1.32 87/08/06 Copyr 1984 Sun Micro; */ This is portmap-6.0, from http://neil.brown.name/portmap/ Is this in any way related to

Bug#382175: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Simon Phipps: On Nov 18, 2008, at 03:52, Ben Hutchings wrote: Many of the functions in portmap.c seem to correspond to rpcbind (usr/src/cmd/rpcbind) in OpenSolaris: Is it just the function prototypes that are derived, or is there derived source defining them too? From our portmap.c: |

Bug#382175: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-17 Thread Simon Phipps
On Nov 5, 2008, at 23:23, Michael Banck wrote: - portmap.c /* @(#)portmap.c 2.3 88/08/11 4.0 RPCSRC static char sccsid[] = @(#)portmap.c 1.32 87/08/06 Copyr 1984 Sun Micro; */ This is portmap-6.0, from http://neil.brown.name/portmap/ Is this in any way related to any Sun code, or is the

Bug#382175: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-17 Thread Ean Schuessler
I'll look into doing a pull on OpenSolaris and see what matches. Does Sun have OpenSolaris loaded into a copy of Nutch somewhere? That would be ever so useful. - Simon Phipps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this in any way related to any Sun code, or is the string simply used by the author

Bug#382175: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-17 Thread Simon Phipps
Try OpenGrok: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/ On Nov 18, 2008, at 01:12, Ean Schuessler wrote: I'll look into doing a pull on OpenSolaris and see what matches. Does Sun have OpenSolaris loaded into a copy of Nutch somewhere? That would be ever so useful. - Simon Phipps [EMAIL

Bug#382175: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-17 Thread Simon Phipps
Thanks for the input. On Nov 18, 2008, at 03:52, Ben Hutchings wrote: Many of the functions in portmap.c seem to correspond to rpcbind (usr/src/cmd/rpcbind) in OpenSolaris: Is it just the function prototypes that are derived, or is there derived source defining them too? The key

Bug#382175: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-05 Thread Ean Schuessler
I'm here at ApacheCon with Simon Phipps and he said that Sun would be delighted to help Debian resolve the RPC licensing problems. He wanted to note that the Free Software Definition did not exist at the time when Sun released to the community and they couldn't have predicted that it would

Bug#382175: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:32:35PM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: I'm here at ApacheCon with Simon Phipps and he said that Sun would be delighted to help Debian resolve the RPC licensing problems. He wanted to note that the Free Software Definition did not exist at the time when Sun released to

Bug#382175: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:07:07PM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: Assuming Sun is the sole copyright holder of that code, he could advise their IP laywers/whoever to relicense the code; either to the glibc license (LGPL-1.2 or later, currently), or perhaps the BSD license. The latter would

Bug#382175: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-05 Thread Ean Schuessler
- Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming Sun is the sole copyright holder of that code, he could advise their IP laywers/whoever to relicense the code; either to the glibc license (LGPL-1.2 or later, currently), or perhaps the BSD license. The latter would probably be best for

Bug#382175: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-05 Thread Ean Schuessler
- Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The code is copyrighted by Sun, not some particular employee, so AFAICT digging up who wrote it will not be necessary. Please understand that asking Sun to relicense source is a little like asking Debian to hurry up and release Lenny. Different