Re: [ANN] guile-scsh 0.2

[Chaos Eternal]

hi all,
ported and pushed.

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Chaos Eternal <address@hidden> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> Fortunately,  I found the same file in newest release of scsh has
> changed licensing statement to GPL. I will port that file here.
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Chaos Eternal <address@hidden> wrote:
>> hi Mark
>> I found this file is originally from savannah CVS repository:
>> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/guile/guile-scsh/fname.scm?root=guile&view=markup
>> And the license was like that.
>> Also, there multiple files in the repo written by the same person,
>> Olin Shivers, has clearly declared GPL.
>>
>> I will ask Olin whether he is ok to change license.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Chaos Eternal <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> I here by announce the 0.2 version of guile-scsh, which is ported to
>>>> guile-2.x and now
>>>> available.
>>>>
>>>> you can get it from:
>>>> https://gitorious.org/guile-scsh/guile-scsh
>>>
>>> This is great news!
>>>
>>> However, looking through the sources, it appears that one of the files
>>> (scsh/fname.scm) is non-free software.  It contains the following
>>> header:
>>>
>>>   ;;; Code for processing Unix file names.
>>>   ;;; Copyright (c) 1992 by Olin Shivers (address@hidden).
>>>   ;;; Please imagine a long, tedious, legalistic 5-page gnu-style copyright
>>>   ;;; notice appearing here to the effect that you may use this code any
>>>   ;;; way you like, as long as you don't charge money for it, remove this
>>>   ;;; notice, or hold me liable for its results.
>>>
>>> If we can't convince Olin Shivers to relicense it, we'll have to rewrite
>>> that file from scratch.
>>>
>>>        Mark