1105244Scharnier 2105244Scharnier $FreeBSD$ 3105244Scharnier 41590SrgrimesThis is the C indenter, it originally came from the University of Illinois 51590Srgrimesvia some distribution tape for PDP-11 Unix. It has subsequently been 61590Srgrimeshacked upon by James Gosling @ CMU. It isn't very pretty, and really needs 71590Srgrimesto be completely redone, but it is probably the nicest C pretty printer 81590Srgrimesaround. 91590Srgrimes 101590SrgrimesFurther additions to provide "Kernel Normal Form" were contributed 111590Srgrimesby the folks at Sun Microsystems. 121590Srgrimes 131590Srgrimes++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 141590Srgrimes> From mnetor!yunexus!oz@uunet.UU.NET Wed Mar 9 15:30:55 1988 151590Srgrimes> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 88 18:36:25 EST 161590Srgrimes> From: yunexus!oz@uunet.UU.NET (Ozan Yigit) 171590Srgrimes> To: bostic@okeeffe.berkeley.edu 181590Srgrimes> Cc: ccvaxa!willcox@uunet.UU.NET, jag@sun.com, rsalz@uunet.UU.NET 191590Srgrimes> In-Reply-To: Keith Bostic's message of Tue, 16 Feb 88 16:09:06 PST 201590Srgrimes> Subject: Re: Indent... 211590Srgrimes 221590SrgrimesThank you for your response about indent. I was wrong in my original 231590Srgrimesobservation (or mis-observation :-). UCB did keep the Illinois 241590Srgrimescopyright intact. 251590Srgrimes 261590SrgrimesThe issue still is whether we can distribute indent, and if we can, which 271590Srgrimesversion. David Willcox (the author) states that: 281590Srgrimes 291590Srgrimes| Several people have asked me on what basis I claim that indent is in 301590Srgrimes| the public domain. I knew I would be sorry I made that posting. 311590Srgrimes| 321590Srgrimes| Some history. Way back in 1976, the project I worked on at the 331590Srgrimes| University of Illinois Center for Advanced Computation had a huge 341590Srgrimes| battle about how to format C code. After about a week of fighting, I 351590Srgrimes| got disgusted and wrote a program, which I called indent, to reformat C 361590Srgrimes| code. It had a bunch of different options that would let you format 371590Srgrimes| the output the way you liked. In particular, all of the different 381590Srgrimes| formats being championed were supported. 391590Srgrimes| 401590Srgrimes| It was my first big C program. It was ugly. It wasn't designed, it 411590Srgrimes| just sort of grew. But it pretty much worked, and it stopped most of 421590Srgrimes| the fighting. 431590Srgrimes| 441590Srgrimes| As a matter of form, I included a University of Illinois Copyright 451590Srgrimes| notice. However, my understanding was that, since the work was done 461590Srgrimes| on an ARPA contract, it was in the public domain. 471590Srgrimes| 481590Srgrimes| Time passed. Some years later, indent showed up on one of the early 491590Srgrimes| emacs distributions. 501590Srgrimes| 51105244Scharnier| Later still, someone from UC Berkeley called the UofI and asked if 521590Srgrimes| indent was in the public domain. They wanted to include it in their 531590Srgrimes| UNIX distributions, along with the emacs stuff. I was no longer at the 541590Srgrimes| UofI, but Rob Kolstad, who was, asked me about it. I told him I didn't 551590Srgrimes| care if they used it, and since then it has been on the BSD distributions. 561590Srgrimes| 571590Srgrimes| Somewhere along the way, several other unnamed people have had their 581590Srgrimes| hands in it. It was converted to understand version 7 C. (The 591590Srgrimes| original was version 6.) It was converted from its original filter 601590Srgrimes| interface to its current "blow away the user's file" interface. 611590Srgrimes| The $HOME/.indent.pro file parsing was added. Some more formatting 621590Srgrimes| options were added. 631590Srgrimes| 641590Srgrimes| The source I have right now has two copyright notices. One is the 651590Srgrimes| original from the UofI. One is from Berkeley. 661590Srgrimes| 671590Srgrimes| I am not a lawyer, and I certainly do not understand copyright law. As 681590Srgrimes| far as I am concerned, the bulk of this program, everything covered by 691590Srgrimes| the UofI copyright, is in the public domain, and worth every penny. 701590Srgrimes| Berkeley's copyright probably should only cover their changes, and I 711590Srgrimes| don't know their feelings about sending it out. 721590Srgrimes 73105244ScharnierIn any case, there appears to be none at UofI to clarify/and change 741590Srgrimesthat copyright, but I am confident (based on the statements of its 751590Srgrimesauthor) that the code, as it stands with its copyright, is 761590Srgrimesdistributable, and will not cause any legal problems. 771590Srgrimes 781590SrgrimesHence, the issue reduces to *which* one to distribute through 791590Srgrimescomp.sources.unix. I would suggest that with the permission of you 801590Srgrimesfolks (given that you have parts copyrighted), we distribute the 4.3 811590Srgrimesversion of indent, which appears to be the most up-to-date version. I 821590Srgrimeshappen to have just about every known version of indent, including the 831590Srgrimesvery original submission from the author to a unix tape, later the 841590SrgrimesG-Emacs version, any 4.n version, sun version and the Unipress 851590Srgrimesversion. I still think we should not have to "go-back-in-time" and 861590Srgrimesre-do all the work you people have done. 871590Srgrimes 881590SrgrimesI hope to hear from you as to what you think about this. You may of 891590Srgrimescourse send 4.3 version to the moderator directly, or you can let me 901590Srgrimesknow of your permission, and I will send the sources, or you can let 911590Srgrimesme know that 4.3 version is off-limits, in which case we would probably 921590Srgrimeshave to revert to an older version. One way or another, I hope to get 931590Srgrimesa version of indent to comp.sources.unix. 941590Srgrimes 951590Srgrimesregards.. oz 961590Srgrimes 971590Srgrimescc: ccvaxa!willcox 981590Srgrimes sun.com!jar 991590Srgrimes uunet!rsalz 1001590Srgrimes 101