Move quagga files from /usr/sfw to /usr [PSARC/2008/038 Self Review]
James Carlson
james.d.carlson at sun.com
Wed Jan 16 12:53:26 PST 2008
Don Cragun writes:
> The quagga binaries already reside under /usr/sbin, as
> described in PSARC/2005/571. The quagga libraries--libzebra,
> libospf, and libospfapiclient--are currently in /usr/sfw/lib
> and will be moved to /usr/gnu/lib. Because of restrictions of
> the GNU Public License (GPL), under which quagga is licensed,
> these libraries cannot reside under the default /usr/lib
> location.
I don't agree. Dealing with licensing issues (real or imagined) is
not what /usr/gnu was defined to do by PSARC 2007/047.
Instead, it's *only* for naming conflicts -- cases where there's a GNU
variant of some utility (e.g., tar) where a user would want to have an
un-prefixed alternative by setting his path.
Furthermore, we have GPL all over the system, not just here, and a lot
of it is in /usr/lib. What could make this one project special?
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