xv and VMS
Peter Coghlan
cctalk at beyondthepale.ie
Wed May 17 16:35:10 CDT 2017
>
> I ask because I've been scraping together patches for xv and collecting
> them into a Github repo[1]. I've finished adding all the patches
> collected by Greg Roelofs, patches from OpenBSD, and now I'm working on
> eliminating unsafe calls like strcpy() and sprintf(). Could I get some of
> you VMS people to check out my work and submit any necessary changes?
>
Great. Thanks for asking. I'll take a look.
>
> My overall goal here is to clean up assorted bitrot and somehow convince
> John Bradley to loosen the license. I believe that I have the most
> up-to-date codebase of xv available at the moment.
>
What's not to like about the license? I've been using using XV for free for
over 20 years within the terms of the license. I liked it so much I decided
to register and pay up anyway a few years ago even though the license said I
could continue to use it for free.
>
> [1] https://github.com/DavidGriffith/xv
>
> --
> David Griffith
> dave at 661.org
>
> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
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>
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
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