[12973] in Athena Bugs
Re: decmips 7.7G: /usr/athena/bin/man
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Fri Dec 2 14:19:51 1994
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 14:19:11 +0500
To: jhawk@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
> Is the entire decmips tree fascist?
Yes.
> I would hope that only those portions which really are would be
> restricted...
Most of the stuff there "really is." The rest I'm unsure of - I didn't
put it there, and I'm not that familiar with the legal status of it.
> I could find no documentation to that end; if Athena is not willing to
> support users finding source code for arbitrary Athena programs
It is not a question of willingness. It is a question of resources and
priorities. Moreover, most of the stuff in that particular part of the
tree that has the possibility of not being fascist really isn't very
interesting.
Still, as part of reorganizing the way we maintain the source tree,
I'm hoping to make it easy to maintain proper protections on that
level.
> I would expect the FILES file to contain some indication that
> decmips/ucb corresponded to usr/athena/bin
FILES is just the result of a dumb script, and a convenience for
helping to look for stuff in the source tree without running a find.
> On the other hand, I guess it's reasonable for that information to be
> contained within decmips/, in a place such as decmips/ucb/Makefile,
It is certainly there.
> but I would hope it'd be in a more central location (like FILES).
Why? That would certainly be nice, and I've thought about mechanisms
for generating and maintaining that sort of information, but I can't
see that it's essential. Again, I'm hoping that this is something that
we'll get out of reorganizing.
Craig Fields
I/S DCNS Development
cfields@mit.edu
