Re: Squid patch

Hi Matthew,
    I do a bit of development on squid, and I've just setup a branch on squid.sourceforge.net targeted at extending the squid acl
environment. Henrik passed on your mail to the squid developers list - and I'm interested in integrating in your patch to squid.

Regarding licencing, Squid is licensed under the GPL, so to accept your patch into the main source tree you need to be willing to
distribute that code under the GPL. GPL Software projects usually require contributors of non-trivial patches to assign the
copyright to the project "owner" in order to provide a united front should a GPL violation occur and a court test of the GPL occur.
I don't know whether the squid project requires that (I have been assigning copyright on my works regardless).
Duane/Henrik/Adrian - any comments on this?

If you wish to distribute _your_ patch separate from squid, I believe it must be distributed under the GPL as well (as it is a
derivative work).

Anyway, I will certainly look at your patch, and with your consent I will pull it into the acl_work CVS branch.

Regards,
Rob Collins

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew" <matthew@nerv.cx>
To: <hno@hem.passagen.se>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:22 AM
Subject: Squid patch

> Hi Henrik,
>
> On and off for the past couple of weeks I have been developing a patch for
> squid to allowed ACL lookups via a MySQL database (farily simple). It
> seems to be working quite nicely.
>
> For me, this is quite useful with my ACL lists constantly
> changing. Others may find it useful too. I was going to put a post up on
> squid-users so that others could try it out, although i do intend to leave
> it for a while 'til its more fully tested.
>
> I was wondering if there are any issues (license related?) that i should
> know before allowing others to use my patch?
>
> I wrote a related document at
> http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mfn100/squid_mysql.html
> and you can download the patch at
> http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mfn100/mysql_acl.patch.gz
>
> if you've got MySQL on your machine you might be interested in taking a
> look.
>
>
> Anyway, all the best
>
> --
> matthew naylor
>
>
>
Received on Wed Feb 14 2001 - 01:10:50 MST