Re: [NTLK] NewtSync -- Oh! Oh! -- Pkg? Sheez!

From: John Anderson (dearjohn_at_everchanging.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 09:48:54 PST


That would be great... using some of its frame transfer code might
greatly help in integrating package installation and binary transfer.
Plus I may be able to speed NewtSync up quite a bit.

In other words, I would *definitely* use it if it were BSD-licensed.

John

On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 06:10 AM, Victor Rehorst wrote:

> But NewTen is based on UnixNPI and UnixNPI is licenced under the GPL,
> which is
> incompatible with the BSD-style terms that John wants to release
> NewtSync
> under. We've been through this before....
>
> Now, I suppose I could try to relicence UnixNPI under a BSD-style
> licence: I
> personally don't care. There's only a few other people who submitted
> code:
> Chayim Kirshen (sp?), Richard Li of course, and two others I believe.
> Shouldn't be too hard to track them down and ask.
>
> John, do you want me to try this?

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