gkermit license change?

Sam Phillips <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:14:17 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've been building with a new garchive and found a few packages that
have needed to be NUV because the maintainer either use poorly named
package names, or because they want people never to run a specific
version of the software again.  

Anyway in the course of this I was looking at gkermit.  The diff
between the two versions was kinda strange.  Removed were bit of
documentation referring to the GPL, OSI, and the official download
location.  The only piece of code added was an ifdef for errno.h.

A small amount of googling has yielded nothing really.  Nick and I
discussed it briefly in IRC, and it's our opinion that we should keep
with the one in the garchive for nightly builds, but we're probably
going to have to do something about this in the future.  Any comments?

For your reference here's the diff between the version being served from
the MASTER_SITE (current) and the one that is in gargoyle's garchive
(old):

diff -ur old/ANNOUNCE current/ANNOUNCE
--- old/ANNOUNCE	1999-12-27 13:22:24.000000000 -0800
+++ current/ANNOUNCE	1999-12-26 12:28:38.000000000 -0800
@@ -103,30 +103,3 @@
 
 Release 1.00 25 Dec 99.
 ------------------------------
-
-Article: 10842 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
-From: [email protected] (Frank da Cruz)
-Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
-Subject: Announcing G-Kermit 1.00
-Date: 27 Dec 1999 21:19:05 GMT
-Organization: Columbia University
-
-G-Kermit 1.00 is released.  The web page is:
-
-  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html
-
-For those who missed the Beta test, G-Kermit is small, fast, and
-portable Kermit protocol implementation for UNIX released under
-the GPL.
-
-Prebuilt binaries are available for over 40 hardware/OS/version
-combinations:
-
-  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html#down
-
-If you can send in binaries that are not listed, please let me
-know.  After allowing a few days for more binaries to come in,
-we'll make a wider announcement.
-
-- Frank
-------------------------------
diff -ur old/README current/README
--- old/README	1999-12-27 14:01:13.000000000 -0800
+++ current/README	1999-12-26 18:20:23.000000000 -0800
@@ -36,9 +36,6 @@
 University.  It is free software under the GNU Public License.  See the
 COPYING file for details.
 
-  This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
-  OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.
-
 G-Kermit is:
  . Fast
  . Small
@@ -1014,10 +1011,4 @@
   comp.protocols.kermit.misc         The unmoderated Kermit newsgroup
   [email protected]        Technical support
 
-Also visit:
-
-  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html
-
-for a more up-to-date version of this file, complete with download links.
-
 (End of G-Kermit README)
diff -ur old/gkermit.h current/gkermit.h
--- old/gkermit.h	1999-12-26 13:25:52.000000000 -0800
+++ current/gkermit.h	2003-05-27 08:30:13.000000000 -0700
@@ -233,7 +233,11 @@
 
 /* Externs */
 
+#ifdef ERRNO_H
+#include <errno.h>
+#else
 extern int errno;
+#endif /* ERRNO_H */
 #ifndef _GKERMIT_C
 extern int debug;
 #endif /* _GKERMIT_C */

-- 
Sam Phillips <[email protected]>          http://www.dasbistro.com/~sam/
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