Matt McCutchen
2009-Sep-02 04:32 UTC
Old versions of lib/addrinfo.h missing from rsync repo
Wayne, Today, to investigate an issue on RHEL 5.2, I checked out rsync 2.6.8 from the rsync repository and attempted to build it. The build failed because the tagged tree did not contain lib/addrinfo.h, which is included by rsync.h. On further investigation, the 2007-10-24 snapshot of the CVS repository you sent me contains revisions 1.1 through 1.11 of lib/addrinfo.h with the release-2-6-8 tag on 1.9, but those eleven revisions are missing from the current CVS repository and the git repository (which I assume was generated from the CVS). Why were they dropped from the development history? There doesn't appear to be a copyright issue: the file bears a BSD license. -- Matt
Wayne Davison
2009-Sep-02 06:09 UTC
Old versions of lib/addrinfo.h missing from rsync repo
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 12:32:45AM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:> Why were they dropped from the development history? There doesn't > appear to be a copyright issue: the file bears a BSD license.It used a 3-clause BSD license, which is incompatible with the GPL. The incompatible code was expunged from CVS and was never imported into git. ..wayne..
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