On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:12:02PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Lars Müller wrote:
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 06:53:04PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Lars Müller wrote:
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:18:33PM -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Cristian Rodríguez
wrote: > Didn't that have a lot to do with the fact that YaST was > copyrighted and not open?
What ? all software is copyrighted unless released in the "public domain"(in some jurisdictions) and if it was closed, there was no way to "pick the source and start a fork"...
Parts of S.u.S.E. weren't open source and you couldn't distribute it is what I meant.
Funny to read this FUD even 15 years later.
Think about how poor the information must have been 15 years ago. It has also been my impression that YaST was pretty closed up until openSUSE came along - maybe I never looked closely enough.
The file COPYRIGHT.yast was on all install media. The title of the text was "YaST and S.u.S.E. Linux licence terms". And it was well hidden in the top level directory. Maybe the hard part was not to find but to read it. ;)
Where was the source code? (just curious).
At that time I expect it was managed with an internal CVS. But I hardly remember this as I never worked on YaST. For the released code I found the source RPMs (including YaST) at http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/5.3/i386.de/suse/zq1/ The time of the zq1 sub directory for the sources and the spm files. A tribute to the 8.3 file name limitation on DOS file systems. All with a big IIRC. file yast.spm yast.spm: RPM v3.0 src This file is from August 1998. I've not been able to find an older public archive. Till my last relocation I kept copies off the old versions. As time goes by ... Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany