Re: [PATCH] compat: add a getpass() compatibility function

[Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Rafael Gieschke <rafael@gieschke.de> wrote:
> diff --git a/compat/getpass.c b/compat/getpass.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..e13f29f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/compat/getpass.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
> +/*     $NetBSD: getpass.c,v 1.15 2003/08/07 16:42:50 agc Exp $ */
> +
> +/*
> + * Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
> + *     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> + *
> + * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> + * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
> + * are met:
> + * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
> + *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> + * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> + *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
> + *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

How do we plan to adhere to this clause? I guess all
package-maintainers could explicitly add this to their release notes /
documentation, but they will have to know that they should. I don't
think every package maintainer read every patch in-depth enough to
notice this.