Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - The official cdrecord source includes working > DVD support since March 1988, there is no need > to add broken DVD code that even breaks the CD writing > part of cdrecord because it ignores the pur

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-14 Thread Xin LI
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:20:46PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, I believe it is generally not possible to use CDDL code > > for integral parts of FreeBSD because, like the LGPL, the CDDL > > requires that modifications be made available under

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-14 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
--- Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rahul Siddharthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[snip] > > It seems that yoy are a victim of Linux FUD :-( > > But reading your text makes me believe that you > could also be an > active member of the Linux FUD network. Talking of Linux, wouldn

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Rahul Siddharthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are, of course, the author of excellent tools like cdrecord, > which many people use on FreeBSD too, so I have no doubt star is > very good software. However, you also have a reputation of not > working well with Linux kernel developers or distri

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005, Jonathan Weiss wrote: > > > Is the CDDL license compatible with the BSD and MIT licenses? > > > > According to the OpenBSD-folks: NO > > Actually, I think the answer is YES. You're apparently answering > a different question. See

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to put down the work you have done, but we've just switched to Tim's > BSDtar > so it seems unlikely that we would swiitch again right now. > We have unfortunatly an embarrasment of riches when it comes to tar. > Too may good implementatiosn to cho

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-12 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Last night, I did convert star from a GPL tool into a CDDL > tool. This now makes star compliant with the BSD philosophy. > > Is there a chance to have star integrated into FreeBSD? As others have noted, CDDL != BSD licence and the base system a

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-12 Thread Eitarou Kamo
David Schultz wrote: As the conclusion, which state are available? Pre Post -- BSD license > CDDL GPL license > CDDL MIT license > CDDL CDDL > BSD license CDDL > GPL license CDDL > MIT license The Cop

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dimitry Andric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-02-10 at 20:08:10 Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Is there a chance to have star integrated into FreeBSD? > > Tim Kientzle already produced a BSD-licensed version of tar, having > many features: http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/ > (He

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Smith III, Edward Mr. CAA/ISC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the CDDL license compatible with the BSD and MIT licenses? Listening to the legal department from Sun - yes. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni)

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-11 Thread David Schultz
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005, Eitarou Kamo wrote: > > > > >Actually, I think the answer is YES. You're apparently answering > >a different question. See below. > > > >It is my understanding that virtually any open-source license is > >*compatible* with the MIT and 2-clause BSD licenses, since all the

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-11 Thread Eitarou Kamo
Actually, I think the answer is YES. You're apparently answering a different question. See below. It is my understanding that virtually any open-source license is *compatible* with the MIT and 2-clause BSD licenses, since all the MIT/2-clause BSD licenses require is that you acknowledge and pre

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-11 Thread David Schultz
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005, Jonathan Weiss wrote: > > Is the CDDL license compatible with the BSD and MIT licenses? > > According to the OpenBSD-folks: NO Actually, I think the answer is YES. You're apparently answering a different question. See below. It is my understanding that virtually any open-

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Joerg Schilling wrote: Hi, Last night, I did convert star from a GPL tool into a CDDL tool. This now makes star compliant with the BSD philosophy. Is there a chance to have star integrated into FreeBSD? Not to put down the work you have done, but we've just switched to Tim's BSDtar so it seems un

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-11 Thread Xin LI
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:08:10PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Hi, > > Last night, I did convert star from a GPL tool into a CDDL > tool. This now makes star compliant with the BSD philosophy. > > Is there a chance to have star integrated into FreeBSD? I think it's already in the ports colle

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-11 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2005-02-10 at 20:08:10 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Is there a chance to have star integrated into FreeBSD? Tim Kientzle already produced a BSD-licensed version of tar, having many features: http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/ (He even mentions you on this page :) So unless your prog

Re: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-11 Thread Kirill Ponomarew
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:29:27PM +0100, Jonathan Weiss wrote: > According to the OpenBSD-folks: NO > See yesterdays thread on openbsd-tech. We have already star and star-devel in ports collection. And bsdtar is used in base on 5.x -Kirill ___ freebsd

RE: Star & FreeBSD

2005-02-11 Thread Smith III, Edward Mr. CAA/ISC
Is the CDDL license compatible with the BSD and MIT licenses? -ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joerg Schilling Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:08 PM To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Star & FreeBSD Hi, Last