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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!lestat.nas.nasa.gov!thorpej From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD? Date: 4 Dec 1995 02:23:35 GMT Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames Lines: 31 Message-ID: <49tm37$2hs@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> References: <30B6A790.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <1995Nov29.102918.7769@wavehh.hanse.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lestat.nas.nasa.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1525 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10158 In article <1995Nov29.102918.7769@wavehh.hanse.de>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> wrote: >Well, one thing that seems really more "open" in OpenBSD is public >readonly CVS access (as advertised, don't know if this is up for >now). > >I'd really like to see this for NetBSD/FreeBSD, too. As an example, it >would make it much easier to look at John Dyson's work on the VM >system without having to ask someone to check out all these changes. OpenBSD is in an interesting position re. read-only CVS access that the other (FreeBSD and NetBSD) camps don't enjoy: the code base is unencumbered. FreeBSD and NetBSD both have RCS files with Net/2 origins. Some of these files were later found to be (pr possibly be) tainted with AT&T or otherwise encumbered code. If either project were to allow the general public to have access to the first revisions of these files, it could mean legal trouble. There's another interesting issue regarding the legal (copyright, license) status of diffs between revisions, which often do not contain a complete copyright notice. In all, while anon cvs is nifty, I think it could become a bigger ball of hair than people expect. I personally wouldn't want its thorn in my side. -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939