[Box Backup] Exclude lists

[Robert Shaw]

On Feb 21, 2005, at 2:25 PM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
>> 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.

As a developer of DarwinPorts (a porting system), I'd prefer to see 
this approach. It would be better for the dependency checking if the 
GUI depended on a working boxbackup installation vs. building a 
built-in copy of the code.

Just my $0.02.

-Robert