On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 01:30 +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 02:48:59AM +0200, Bernd Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> > Hi Ted,
> > 
> > better not wake up sleeping dogs :)
> > 
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 17:14 -0400, you wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Bernd Siggy Brentrup <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > > AFAICT from at(1), the code is still mostly T-Rex's implementation.
> > > >
> > > > You may want to have a look at https://launchpad.net/~at-ng for
> > > > a reimplementation from scratch,  The client side is mostly done
> > 
> > > I don't think one small bug is sufficient reason to replace a
> > > generally working BSD licensed program with a GPL one.
> > 
> > The oldest sources by Thomas Koenig (aka T-Rex) I have at hand (3.1.8
> > iirc) definitely carry a GPL license statement.  I'm curious in how
> > far openBSD's source code for at differs to warrant a different
> > license if at all possible.  Up to now I only checked the manpage.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/at/LEGAL?rev=1.1

Thanks for this link which obviously clarifies the issue.

I'm Cc'ing Joey Schulze who told me maintaining at for Debian was
an upstream job too back in 2000.

Regards
  Siggy
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