xv and VMS

[Peter Coghlan]

>
> 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
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>
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Regards,
Peter Coghlan.