[Box Backup] Exclude lists

[Martin Ebourne]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 21:51 +0000, Ben Summers wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2005, at 21:08, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >> It might be easier for everyone if the first stage of your build 
> >> process extracted the necessary files from a normal unmodified 
> >> release?
> >
> > I could do that, but I think it would be a pain for automated build 
> > processes. I hope that we can come to an agreement that allows me to 
> > distribute the GPL'ed Boxi code and your Box code in the same package.
> 
> I don't think I can give you permission to release the Box code under 
> the GPL. However, as I read the BSD license, there isn't a problem with 
> just including a lump of BSD code in a distribution as a separate 
> entity. I suggest you ask someone who knows!
> 
> Or perhaps you could require that Box Backup was built, and then link 
> in the .a files which are produced as part of the build process? Quite 
> a handy set of libraries.

Perhaps making a libboxbackup.so would be the way to go here, meaning
that the only requirement for building the gui would be a working
installation of box. It also helps clearly delineate between code with
the two different licences.

Cheers,

Martin.