From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19213 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2000 07:50:41 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 29 Jan 2000 07:50:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 28144 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2000 07:50:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9465 Received: (qmail 28137 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2000 07:50:33 -0000 Subject: Re: Gettext, cproto, configure, license In-Reply-To: <20000129000341.A1459@pld.org.pl> from Michal Kuratczyk at "Jan 29, 2000 00:03:41 am" To: kura@pld.org.pl Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 07:50:31 +0000 (GMT) CC: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL65 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Zefram Michal Kuratczyk wrote: >- using gettext to provide localized messages We discussed locale usage recently. I think this is the only type of locale usage that would be uncontroversial. It's just a matter of someone producing the (inevitably large) code patch, and someone doing translations. >- using 'cproto' instead of awk script and strange formatting The awk script does a lot besides just generating prototypes. And we can't rely on cproto being available on every build system (I don't have it here, for example, and this is a recent Red Hat). >- adding configure option to provide building minimal version of zsh > (for using as a /bin/sh or as a rescue tool). Only POSIX-sh > capabilities whould be available in such version. That's something I'm planning. There's some work to do with modules first. >I created RPM package with zsh, but I am not sure how should I call the >license. Usuall in RPM packages one uses keywords like 'public domain', >'distributable', 'GPL' or something like that. What should I put there? It's the zsh license -- it's unique to zsh. Its effect is pretty much identical to the BSD license, so you could reasonably describe it as "BSD-like". I'd much rather we used one of the standard licenses (and actually I've changed my mind recently and come to quite like the GPL). But we've already changed the license twice that I remember, and it's a complex issue, so I don't see us switching any time soon. -zefram