Re: RE: Is FreeBSD's tar susceptible to this?

From: Brett Glass (brett@lariat.org)
Date: 10/01/02 

Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 15:10:06 -0600
To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

At 03:03 PM 10/1/2002, f.johan.beisser wrote:

>Brett, i'm going to thank you on behalf of the various BSD projects for
>volunteering your time and skills in creating a BSD licensed tar that is
>GNU-tar compatable.

It shouldn't be hard to do. Will anyone volunteer to be the other half
of the clean room reverse engineering team so that we can avoid copyright
problems and whip this out as soon as possible?

>should i expect this before or after the BSD licensed
>C compiler?

Actually, there already ARE BSD-licensed C compilers, including TenDRA.
The BSDs should use one of them.

--Brett

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