David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:24:07PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > >>today I read a news article (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/60600) >>about OpenSolaris beeing released, but is there also the groff alternative >>included? >>I'd love to see a lean replacment for our current gnu version. > > > Before everyone gets all happy thinking we can incorporate all kinds of > bits from Open Solaris - one should read the license agrement first. > > COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE Version 1.0 > .. > 3.1. Availability of Source Code. > Any Covered Software that You distribute or otherwise make available > in Executable form must also be made available in Source Code form > and that Source Code form must be distributed only under the terms of > this License. > > this puts the CDDL1.0 in the same boat as GPL'ed code from a BSD stand > point. Would troff/nroff/ps/pdf utilities from Plan 9 be usable? The license isn't as restrictive. They do compile, though I think there was a bit of weirdness with the ps/pdf conversion stuff the last time I heard from someone doing this for DragonFly. --DevonReceived on Tue Jun 14 2005 - 18:00:42 UTC
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