Why upgrade? I'm not a lawyer, but here's my take on the differences
to version 2:
* Software patents: better protection against abuse of patents to
prevent users from exercising the rights under the GPL. I doubt
we'll get hit with a patent suit, but it's a good move just on
general principles.
* License compatibility: compatible with more free licenses, i.e. can
"steal" more free software for use in Empire. I don't expect to steal
much, but it's nice to have the option.
* Definition of "source code": modernization of some details for today's
networked world, to make it easier to distribute the software. Not
really relevant to us now, as we normally distribute full source code.
* Tivoization: this is about putting GPL-licensed software in hardware,
then make the hardware refuse to run modified software. "Neat" trick
to effectively deny its users their rights under the GPL. Abuse was
"pioneered" by TiVo (popular digital video recorders). GPLv3 forbids
it. Unlikely to become a problem for us.
* Internationalization: more careful wording, to harden the license
outside the US. The lawyers tell us it better be done that way.
* License violations: friendlier way to deal with license violations.
This has come out of past experience enforcing the GPL.
* Additional permissions: Probably not relevant to us.
Also include myself in the list of principal authors.
Move client's w32_connect() to w32sockets.c.
Replace w32_recv() and w32_send() by read() and write().
Replace w32_close() by w32_close_function.
Replace call of WSAStartup() in w32_sysdep_init() by
w32_socket_init().
Remove the identical copies of fd_is_socket(),
w32_set_winsock_errno(), w32_socket().
version silently truncates long lines. The old one split them up and
got quite confused. It got also confused when the line didn't arrive
in one piece. Icing on the cake: it wrote beyond the end of the
buffer. The new version is less efficient, but that doesn't matter
here.
w32_writev_socket, w32_close_socket, getpass, w32_openfd,
w32_openhandle, w32_readv_handle, w32_close_handle,
sysdep_init, sysdep_stdin_init, w32_select, w32_signal_handler,
sigaction, stdin_read_thread, w32_ring_from_file_to_bounce_buf)
[_WIN32]: New w32 equivalent functions for POSIX functions.
(recvline, sendcmd, tcp_connect, hostconnect, getpass,
main, intr, play, ring_to_file, ring_from_file, doexecute,
doredir) [_WIN32]: Use new WIN32 equivalent functions.
(main) [_WIN32]: Add sysdep_init() to support system dependent
initialization for equivalence functions.
(play) [_WIN32]: Add sysdef_stdin_init() to support system
dependent initialization for reading stdin.
(recv_input, play) [_WIN32]: Replace the calls to ring_to_file()
and select() with WIN32 specific enhanced versions.
Makefile.in: update dependencies with new files.
Make.mk: Add using of getopt.c and getopt.h
from src/lib/w32 directory. Add getopt.c and getopt.h
to tar for client.
other. Ensure headers in include/ can be included in any order
(except for econfig-spec.h, which is special). New header types.h to
help avoid inclusion cycles. Sort include directives. Remove some
superflous includes.
(login): New parameter utf8. If set, request option utf-8 from
server.
(expect, recvline): Split recvline() out of expect(). Replace or
remove some unhelpful diagnostics.
(eight_bit_clean): New.
(screen): If eight_bit_clean is set, highlighting is switched with
SO/SI. Else characters with MSB set are highlighted.
(main): New option -u to request UTF-8 and set eight_bit_clean.
linkage that is not in any other header in misc.h. Remove some
redundant declarations elsewhere.
(prompt, doredir, dopipe, doexecute, output, screen, parsedelay):
Static linkage.
thread entrypoints:
(lwpSelect, shutdown_sequence): Parameters didn't match thread entry
point prototype.
(lwpEntryPoint): Arguments didn't match thread entry point prototype.
Change linkage of functions without prototype declaration to static
where possible.
Remove some superflous declarations, replace others by suitable
includes.
