Re: [PATCH] Add nvi

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Marek Benc <merkur32@gmail.com> skribis:

> On 09/02/2014 02:29 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

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>> Could you send the patch (with the added comments) as an attachment,
>> because the mail client apparently mangled it?
>
> Okay, It's as an attachment. Here's the changelog entries:
>
> 2014-09-02 Marek Benc <merkur32@gmail.com>
> * gnu/packages/nvi.scm: New file.
> * gnu/packages/patches/nvi-assume-preserve-path.patch: New file.
> * gnu-system.am: Added the preceding 2 files.

Actually, if you make the 3 lines above part of the commit log, ‘git
format-patch’ will preserve them, and so the patch will be directly
applicable with ‘git am’–which is better.  :-)

Anyway I’ve now pushed the patch, thanks!

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>   (The files in the clib/ subdirectory bear a BSD-4 license header, yet the
>   only copyright holder of those files is the University of California,
>   Berkeley, which removed the ad-clause in 1997 retroactively (i.e. it
>   relicensed all BSD-4 code under its copyright to BSD-3). Thus those files
>   are effectively distributed under the BSD-3 license as well.)

This seems to be the explanation: at some point UC Berkeley changed the
license to BSD-3, which it can do as the sole copyright holder.

Thanks,
Ludo’.