Re: licensing issues

[Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx%ua.ac.be@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:08:51PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:21:19AM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > 
> > > > I *HIGHLY* recommend not putting context patches into pkgsrc-wip.
> > > > If you must do this, use simple ed-script patches only (e.g., "diff
> > > > -e") to make sure context is not included.
> > >
> > > Are things ok as they are in wip/jdk14 at the moment?  Or should all
> > > existing patches/ be converted to diff -e format?
> > 
> > I'd recommend converting them, committing, and then doing "cvs admin
> > -o" for all the previous revisions of the patch files.  Doing so would
> > put the jdk14 package into at least questionable, rather than bad,
> > legal status.  8-)
> 
> Do the "diff -e" style patches work with pkgsrc out-of-the-box?  I doubt
> it since for example they don't contain the filename to be patched.  

Would "diff -U0" patches also be ok?  They contain no context, only the
original line(s) which are actually modified, and they work with pkgsrc
without modification.  

GH


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