Re: colorized completion patch [was Re: Release candidate patch for 3.0.6]

[Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>]

"Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com> writes:

> On Apr 28,  1:30am, Greg Badros wrote:
> > Subject: colorized completion patch [was Re: Release candidate patch for 3
> > Ah, what the hell... I went ahead and updated my patch for zsh-3.0.6-pre2.
> 
> Maybe this got asked before, but:  What's the GPL encumbrance status of the
> code you lifted from fileutils?  Is it your code and you are separately
> licensing it to the Zsh Development Group?  Or is it someone else's code,
> in which case it is GPL'd and I can't include it?
> 
> (The zsh group has a long history of dissastisfaction with GNU licensing,
> all the way back to PF himself.  I can't accept any code that "infects"
> zsh with the GPL.)

Understood.  When I first introduced my patch a while back, this came
up.  I asked RMS about it, and he seemed willing to grant an exception
for the small amount of GNU code I was using, but then the discussion
closed to between RMS and some zsh maintainer (I don't remember who, but 
my guess is it was someone still on the list).

I'll ask Richard again if the issue wasn't resolved 2 years ago --
coincidentally, I was just demoing my Scwm (scheme constraints window
manager) to him on Wednesday while he was down here visiting Melbourne, Australia.

Greg