Hello,
How about the python license? Not that I'm really capable of rewriting
and/or patching the pkg_* tools but from a license point of view I
think that the license under which python is distributed is quite
similiar to a BSD license. Especiall this:
"""
GPL-compatible doesn't mean that we're distributing Python under
the GPL. All Python licenses, unlike the GPL, let you distribute
a modified version without making your changes open source. The
GPL-compatible licenses make it possible to combine Python with
other software that is released under the GPL; the others don't.
"""
as a footnote in the license makes me think that way. Given that is
there any chance realistic chance that python will be part of the obsd
default at some point in the forseeable future? In any case is it
missing auditing, general interest (or any other point I can't think
of right now). Personally I'd really like to see python being included
in obsd base
License is here: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/license/
http://www.python.org/download/releases/<version>/license/
It's probably, as with all languages, just personal favor, but mine
goes in the direction of python :)
/martin
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:23 PM, hyjial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi list !
> Reading through OpenBSD's codebase, I have noticed that the code
> living
> under src/usr.sbin/pkg_add is written in Perl. Perl is distributed
> under the Artistic license, though. The latter is not as permissive
> as the BSD
> license under which monst of OpenBSD is released. No doubt
> that is the reason
> why Perl lives in src/gnu.
> Why have such a tool using a non-BSD package when
> there was choice
> not to do so ?
> What technical reasons have lead the
> developers to elect this
> language ?
> I am just curious about the fact and
> didn't manage to find information
> in tech@ and mis@ archives.
> Thanks in
> advance.
> Hyjial.
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