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?
Compared to star-1.4, star-1.5 gives a lot of new features, e.g.:
- a true incremental backup/restore mode th
"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
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Jonathan Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is the CDDL license compatible with the BSD and MIT licenses?
> > -ed
>
> According to the OpenBSD-folks: NO
> See yesterdays thread on openbsd-tech.
In contrary to the GPL, the CDDL allows you to combine code under
the BSD license and the CDDL withou
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.freeb
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
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
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
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 beca
>From: fergus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Perhaps it makes sense to switch to star instead? The last version is
>> > Posix conform, supports extended headers and ACLs. According to the star
>> > developer (Joerg Schilling) GNU tar is severly broken.
>>
&g
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 29 21:11:16 2001
>> Of course, if you only know GNUtar Star's standard option handling
>> _may_ look strange. But then why did FreBSD switch to GNUtar instead
>> of keeping a real tar?
>Because there didn't exist a real tar at the time that FreeBSD was
>created.
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 29 21:25:58 2001
>> >> Of course, if you only know GNUtar Star's standard option handling
>> >> _may_ look strange. But then why did FreBSD switch to GNUtar instead
>> >> of keeping a real tar?
>>
>> >Because there didn't exist a real tar at the time that FreeBSD
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 3 20:27:24 2001
>On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:07:03PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> >> - An idiosyncratic build system.
>>
>> This is really funny
>Please don't waste time on this issue. I can bmake and shoe-horn
&
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 6 00:41:54 2001
>.
>> STAR Option Description Gnu
>tar equiv. Remarks
>> === ===
>= ===
>.
>> file=nm,
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 6 00:41:54 2001
>Joerg Schilling writes:
>.
>> STAR Option Description Gnu
>t
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