From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA01896 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 05:32:12 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA26054; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 15:26:32 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 15:26:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199608271925.VAA08321@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: Distribution terms To: schaefer@nbn.com Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 21:25:28 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: gjb@moa.cs.duke.edu, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <960827082850.ZM7886@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Aug 27, 96 08:28:50 am" Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"4Nw031.0.0N6.dlq8o"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2083 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > } Do you, Zoltan, or does anyone else know where I can find explicit > } distribution terms for Zsh. I've looked the usual places, and not found > } any information. I'm asking permission of the FSF to use the bit of > } color_ls in zsh, but we need to let them know the distribution policy. > > Before you go through that hassle, perhaps we should have (a) a statement > from Zoltan on whether he thinks the patches are worth including in the > first place, and (b) a discussion on zsh-workers about that statement. As Richard wrote the copyright policy can be found in each C source file. I'll extract it to a separate COPYING file and add that that copiright notice holds for all included file except where there is a different copyright note in the file (i.e. COPYING will say that zsh is copyrighted by P.F. but Makefiles, configure.in etc. are copyrighted by Richard. I do not know who copyrights the texinfo documentation. It comes mostly from the manual so PF maybe. I do not know anything about copyright law. If one expert could write a good COPYING file based on the comments in C files and the general ideas above I would happily include it in the distribution. And about colorizes lists: first there will be a zsh-3.0.1 release. It will definitely not be added before that. And in zsh-3.1 we have to find out a portable way to use dynamically loadable modules. After that anyone can write a plug-in for zsh and can implement any feature he wants. But such features should not blow up zsh. It would be a good idea to better modularise the existing zsh code, make a few things optional (fo rexample zle and completion). I do not know how much is the ovehead caused by a big executable. When zsh is used as a scipt interpreter on a demand-paged system only the parts necessary run a script will be loaded so it may not give any real improvement. Zoltan