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Re: please put back cat man pages, and what's the deal with warp?



On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 01:12:58PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 11.11.2020 11:05, nia wrote:
> > https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/8dacd60b50e3047dcbb2645d41df02cd16fd2072/games/warp/warp.c#L10
> > 
> > this doesn't read like a netbsd-compatible software license.
> > 
> 
> Fixed. It was an leftover. If there is anything else, please let me know.

Did you actually get permission from him to donate copyright to TNF or
are you just interpreting his vague statement mentioned in your commit as
"do whatever you like"? That's not how copyright works.

> > it's using libcompat. should new programs in base really be relying on
> > ancient bsd compat?
> > 
> 
> No, but on the other hand it was exposed that software using old tty is
> not buildable after this commit:
> 
> https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/573acd495de4cf3c5dbe2c50ec5071a25f8027e6
> 
> Symbols such as ECHO are missing. Can we either drop ioctl_compat.h or
> reintroduce the symbols? Missing old and new tty headers didn't work
> when I tried it (at least before more renovation in warp(6) from christos@).


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