Quoting McCoy Smith (mc...@lexpan.law): > License-approval only goes back to December, 2007; license-discuss > goes back to 1999, but as far as I can tell doesn’t include complete > discussion about approvals of licenses from 1999-2007 (those > discussions are on now-dead links to Russ Nelson’s private webpage). > I think a complete examination of the history of license approvals > (particular around the ones that were put early on the list) would > require that data. I’ve heard it exists somewhere, but not sure > where. Would be nice if it was publicly accessible.
That reminds me that I should (and now will) extend an offer, valid indefinitely, to OSI to help merge in any archives that can be located of earlier license-discuss and license-review traffic. GNU Mailman bases each mailing list's 'pipermail' archive on a cumulative file storing all received postings in receipt order, in Unix mbox format. Debian, as an example, would append license-discuss postings to /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/license-discuss.mbox/license-discuss.mbox . The archiver sub-process then refreshes from the mbox file the derived contents of the HTML and ASCII public archives, to reflect the new traffic. Because of that structure, it's not particularly difficult to merge missing traffic into a GNU Mailman mailing list archive, _provided_ one can hammer those missing messages into one or more mbox file -- and then combine the several mbox files as a shell operation, and finally re-generate the public archive, thus: # su - list $ cd /var/lib/mailman $ bin/arch --wipe license-discuss $ exit # exit There's a _little_ more to it, having to do with finding and escaping message-body lines inside the mbox that start with flush-left '> From', but otherwise this works well. Of course, one tests the regeneration _first_ on a scratch system, for caution's sake, and makes backups. I used this technique to extend Silicon Valley Linux User Group's mailing list archive _backward_ into history about a year before SVLUG's 1998 early-adoption of GNU Mailman: Prior to that, SVLUG had used Brent Chapman's (proprietary, Perl-based) 'majordomo' mailing list manager, but, serendipitously, SVLUG had kept a copy of majordomo's cumulative mbox file. Ergo, after some easy integration work, SVLUG's Mailman archive got extended back to Sept. 24, 1997, long before SVLUG (or practically anyone else) used Mailman in production. (http://lists.svlug.org/archives/svlug/) Because OSI no longer self-hosts Mailman, the final steps (above) would need to be requested from OSI's hosting provider's technical staff, but, with some luck, they would not refuse. (Mindful of Pam's request to please be nice, I'll not elaborate on what rightfully should be done concerning hosting providers who refuse. ;-> ) -- Cheers, There's no theorem like Bayes's Theorem, like no theorem we know. Rick Moen Everything about it is appealing, everything about it is a wow. rick@linux Let out all that a-priori feeling, you've been concealing, mafia.com right up to now. -- G.E.P. Box (w/apologies to Irving Berlin) _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
