Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1) Given that pretty much the entire FOSS universe seems to be moving 
> away or have already moved away from, CVS, should we perhaps consider 
> integration as Obsolete, with some suitable note in the man pages or 
> other docs recommending the use of alternatives such as SVN or Hg?
> 

The entire FOSS universe?

http://xml.apache.org/cvs.html
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/cvs.html
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/

I still find older project using this; not having it available is an 
impediment.

Changing the docs to suggest alternatives is not really part of a man
page.  It might be a reasonable comment in a developer doc entitled
"choosing a SCMS"; such a document doesn't exist as far as I know.

> 2) Not really architectural, but you indicate that this is released 
> under GPLv1.  If so, are there are any other GPLv1 software in 
> OpenSolaris?  Maybe this needs a special case of legal review?  (I am 
> not entirely familiar with the differences between GPLv1 and GPLv2....)
> 

I would assume the OSR process will explore any issues here.  I suggest
that if you're worried about this, _you_ do the background reading
and have the discussion w/ legal, rather than raising vague "fetch
a rock" questions such as asking the project team to explore if any
other components in OpenSolaris that use this license.


- Bart

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Bart Smaalders                  Solaris Kernel Performance
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