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Re: License crap.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Thu Jun 8 03:13:40 2000

To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 08 Jun 2000 03:13:36 -0400
In-Reply-To: Richard Tibbetts's message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2000 03:12:05 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hsnuo8x27.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>

Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> writes:

> On 6/8 tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote:
> > When the library is not free software, then the situation is quite
> > different.
> 
> Ok, so I guess the right thing to do is to try and dig up a free AFS
> library. Anyone here have suggestions for one that is good enough to
> put in the release and depend on for (in the future) core Athena
> software?

Arla has one that is suitable for the case here: detecting whether a
given file is controlled by AFS.  For doing AFS operations we might
want to use a callout to fs.  Dunno.

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