[Cryptech Tech] Command line interface

Leif Johansson leifj at sunet.se
Tue May 3 19:01:17 UTC 2016


On 2016-05-03 20:23, Rob Austein wrote:
> I looked for usable libraries with better licenses before suggesting
> libcli.  Eg, there's the old Columbia-MM reimplementation of the
> TOPS-20 COMND% JSYS (conceptual ancestor of the cisco CLI by way of
> the Stanford Ethertip), but the code is old and crufty.
> 
> I think LGPL, while not great, is acceptable, in that it only requires
> users to give away source to libcli itself.  In particular, it does
> NOT GPL-contaminate everything to which it's linked.
> 
> I think that, if we want a usable command line interface soon, libcli
> is probably the way to go.  We do have a few other things that we need
> to get done before Berlin.

+1

also Jacobs suggestion makes sense - ask about dual licensing for this
project




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