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There is a problem with a free SCCS, I tried to make one but I could not
find a description of the SCCS file format which did not come from AT&T or
if it looked as a independent source, they contained one or more paragraphs
which was word to word the same as the AT&T description. It is in my
opinion impossible to write a copylefted SCCS as it will always deal with
the format of the SCCS file which is copyrighted by AT&T.
The task of writing a clone of SCCS should be pretty easy, but it will be a
clone and not white-roomed-code and therefore not copy-left-able.
FSF by the way is about developping tools that are equivalent or better
than the comercial tools; for version control the tool is called RCS, and
it is better than SCCS and is even used as an engine in CVS and MKS Source
Integrity to mention two.
I do not think the world needs a SCCS clone as free software, but if
anybody disagrees I could provide my design document, which never was coded
as I came across RCS and did not see the need.
Regards
Henrik Geleff
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> From: Jason Zions <jazz AT softway DOT com>
> To: Kevin Hughes <kh AT wg DOT icl DOT co DOT uk>
> Cc: GNU-Win32 AT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: Re: SCCS
> Date: 22 May 1997 19:27
>
> There is no public-domain SCCS code that I'm aware of; it's all under
> AT&T copyright. If someone has an SCCS clone source code base that's
> truly free or copylefted, I'd love to hear about it as well.
>
> Jason
>
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