Subject: Re: bzip2 instead of gzip for 'make package' / pkg_add(8)
To: Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org>
From: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/08/2002 19:03:25
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 @ 4:49pm (-0500), Eric Gillespie wrote:

EG> "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> writes:
EG>
EG> > cons:
EG> > *) still a LGPL license
EG>
EG> Eh?  According to /usr/src/dist/bzip2/LICENSE and
EG> <http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/> it is BSD-licensed.


my bad.  i thought originally that it was BSD but assumed that he changed the
license to [l]GPL when he moved from an independant URL to *redhat.com (as
with some other projects rehat has hijacked)


anyway i suspect that these changes will need to be made in pkg_add (where
the path to tar and gzip are defined)

-lava

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