From: hgeleff AT spidernet DOT com DOT cy ("Henrik Geleff") Subject: Re: SCCS 25 May 1997 07:28:14 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199705251333.QAA10478.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail0.spidernet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: , "Kevin Hughes" Original-Cc: X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com 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 ---------- > From: Jason Zions > To: Kevin Hughes > 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 > > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".