RE: Svnserve wrapper for running as a Windows service

Why is the likelihood of making svnserve itself run as a service "close to
zero"?

I will volunteer to write new support for svnserve to run as a native
Windows service. I've written literally dozens of Win32 services, I know
how to do it, and I will contribute my work without any license
restrictions.

-- arlie
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Large [mailto:simon@skirridsystems.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 5:41 PM
To: Subversion Dev List
Cc: Max Bowsher
Subject: Re: Svnserve wrapper for running as a Windows service

Ping. Any further thoughts on the suitability of svnservice for inclusion in
the contrib folder (assuming the likelihood of making svnserve itself run as
a Windows service are close to zero).

Max Bowsher wrote:
> Simon Large wrote:
>> Is this a suitable candidate for adding to the subversion contrib/
folder?
>
> No, it is not, because whilst Magnus Norddahl's webpage says 'Source ...
> is in the public domain', this appears to be a lie, given that the
> code itself contains the statement 'Copyright (C) 1993-1997 Microsoft
> Corporation. All Rights Reserved.'.

Sorry, late response.

What are you objecting to here?

IIUC submissions to the contrib folder do not need copyright assigned to
CollabNet.

The code you are referring to comes from the Samples folder of Microsoft's
platform SDK (free download), and the license terms state:

c. Distributable Code. The software contains code that you are
permitted to copy and distribute in programs you develop if you comply with
the terms below.
i. Right to Use and Distribute. The code and text files listed below
are "Distributable Code." You may:

. Sample Code. Modify, copy and distribute the source and
object code form of code marked as "sample" except for files identified as
MFCs, ATLs and CRTs (see below);

There are other terms and conditions of course, but nothing we can't comply
with given a bit more effort. Basically they want acknowledgement and
indemnity. Making it public domain was clearly wrong, but it should not be
too hard to provide a license file which complies with their requirements.

/cue retort from lawyers about how engineers always think law is easy.

Simon

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