[131] in Athena User Interface
Re: RFC: Prioritized AUI component list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Tue Jun 6 18:49:08 2000
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>, BSG@MIT.EDU, Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>,
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>,
aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 06 Jun 2000 18:49:03 -0400
In-Reply-To: Richard Tibbetts's message of "Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:41:30 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hpupuxw68.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> writes:
> On 6/6 tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote:
> > (Incidentally, as for AFS,
> > don't assume that the existence of /afs means that the system is
> > running AFS and don't use avoid-AFS-lossage behavior on non-AFS files
> > [shell utils got both of these wrong]).
>
> As a resident free software geek, what is your suggestion for how to
> deal with AFS from GPL'd code? I would prefer not to include ARLA
> libraries in the Athena release. Do you have a better suggestion?
Hmm. I'm really not sure. I think it's reasonable to interpret AFS
as part of the operating system and detect its presence with autoconf
and only use the functions if they are there. I don't know whether
that actually passes muster with the language of the GPL. We should
ask rms what he thinks, perhaps.
I certainly hadn't thought about the problem from a licensing
standpoint; that does raise a noxious wrinkle. Thanks for pointing it
out.
