Subj : Re: NPTL2 or something
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joseph Seigh
Date : Thu Jan 06 2005 08:27 am

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:46:26 +0100, Sebastien Decugis  
<sebastien.decugis@ext.bull.net> wrote:

> you have to upload your public key in your account previously to be able  
> to ssh with shell.sourceforge.net (or cvs).
> seb.

Just ssh'ing in works.  I don't know what the bits about creating  
public/private
key pairs was about.  I suspect it has something to do with writing  
automated
scripts that authenticate with those.

It looks like I don't need to use CVS for now.  Actually uploading the  
files for
distro is via anonymous ftp.  Talk about other extremes.

Now I have to figure out the license part.   I was thinking of Mozilla MPL  
1.1
license since they actually have boilerplate templates which is kind of  
nice.
But on closer examination, it appears to be complete and utter nonsense,  
even
for a legal document.  So I think I'll go with LGPL since it has what I can
can at least identify as a copyright notice in proper form.

What is with these open source licenses?  They have no instructions for  
filling
them out.  These are legal documents!  If you have the least bit wrong  
they're
completely worthless.  Also no instructions on how to modify it as a  
derived
work.  I'll bet 99% of the stuff out there doesn't have a legally valid  
license.

Joe Seigh

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