Re: Intent to intend to package various Project Athena software
> I don't see a big need for libzephyr/zephyr-base.
Mmm, it would be nice for *consistency* (after all, the model works
well for other things, and you don't *know* that there won't be
uses... in fact, here's an obvious one: someone does a real zephyrized
syslog (as opposed to the crufty one in the zephyr release, which
presumably you won't bother with) and would like to install it on a
server-only machine... this machine would need only the zsyslog
package, zephyr-base (to get zhm and zhm.conf [you *will* be packaging
the interrealm code, right? :-)]) and libzephyr. The machine won't
need zctl or even zwrite... and it certainly wouldn't need zwgc, since
that would require at least xbase...
Yeah, these are weak by themselves -- but they're enough to count as
encouragement to *stick with the model*, I think. (I don't actually
install zwgc on any of my systems, anyhow - I just use tzc...)
As for Canadian Law, IANAL but might suggest you talk to
iang@isaac.berkeley.edu, who you might find a better reference for if
you look on the pilotgear.com web pages -- he's the author of TopGun
SSH for the Pilot PDA, but only when he's at home in Canada :-) He
might have a better idea about you packaging, say, the KTH V4 (which
is pretty good code in any case, and it's autoconfiscated...) and
distributing it internationally from there.
> Why not package them on your own? (except for the time)
Well, lets see. Some of them are big ugly X programs that shouldn't
necessarily escape from MIT (xzewd for example) others are large
complicated and *unrelated* systems (discuss, for example) that only
happen to have a notification feature that uses zephyr. It might be
interesting to package them later, *if* people actually start using
zephyr from these packages...
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