Re: nCurses Porting to VMS

[frederic . maye]

>On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:03:37PM -0800, Daniel Weaver wrote:
>> At 03:32 PM 10/28/2002 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> >On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:16:34PM +0100,
address@hidden
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I am currently porting nCurses to openVMS.
>> >>
>> >> As I am new to the open source, I have a few questions:
>> >
>> >> - If yes, what will I have to do in order to give you all rights on
my code
>> >> (I am working on this at my working place, therefore all what I write
is
>> >> copyrigthed to my compagny)
>>
>> If you are doing this work for your company, and on company time then
the work
>> belongs to your company and you can't give it away. However if you are
>> doing the work on your own time on your own equipment then you can do
>> anything you want with it.
>
>It depends. The first place I worked said they owned everything that might
be
>in any line of business that they might contemplate. The second if I used
any
>resources of the company. On the positive side, they're no longer in
>business...
>
>Generally that is written down (it's good to read those agreements).
>
>> When I submitted TACK to FSF they required me to get written statements
>> from all my employers and all contributors stating that they (the
employers)
>> have no claim on the code.
>
>or, as I implied, his company could in fact (if they chose to) keep their
name
>on it if the terms of the copyright were compatible. My understanding of
>"working on this at my working place" was that it was part of his job.
>
>It's simpler from FSF's standpoint, but not an absolute requirement to
have
>FSF's name on it - if the license clearly states that it is free for use,
>modification, distribution with modifications, etc. ncurses uses an
MIT-style
>copyright, which is clear enough (see below).
>
>> The correct answer is to talk to your employer and find out what their
>> policy is concerning free software and if they would mind if you made
>> your changes available to the public.
>
>true (he can't assume anything).

In fact I am performing this porting as part of a professionnal project. So
I will
talk to my employer to know if he will agree that I put a FSF copyright in
the
code I write while porting.

On an other way, as this porting is a "part" of my project, in replacing
our current
display driver by ncurses, I will not have the time now to write a clean
portable package.
I have to produce program using ncurses.
I actually have this (a VMS version of ncurses) but without all the
configure, make and build tools
to perform this easly from a standart package.

 This will be done in the next few months.




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