From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26011 invoked from network); 29 Apr 1999 21:51:44 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 29 Apr 1999 21:51:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 1564 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 1999 21:51:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6161 Received: (qmail 1555 invoked from network); 29 Apr 1999 21:51:24 -0000 Sender: gjb@cs.washington.edu To: "Bart Schaefer" Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: colorized completion patch [was Re: Release candidate patch for 3.0.6] References: <990428001558.ZM848@candle.brasslantern.com> <990429112806.ZM9027@candle.brasslantern.com> From: Greg Badros Date: 29 Apr 1999 14:51:14 -0700 In-Reply-To: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of "Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:28:05 -0700" Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" "Bart Schaefer" 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