Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:56:02 -0600 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newer versions of gnu diff and patch Message-ID: <20040730185602.GA52746@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <p0611041abd3045fce009@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20040730154011.GA98131@sanatana.dharma> <p0611041abd3045fce009@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:41:32PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > What we would like to do is to move to a bsd-licensed version of > patch, which I am supposed to be working on in my copious spare > time... OpenBSD appear to gotten permission from Larry Wall to put patch(1) under a BSD license. They also appear to have made a reasonable number of improvements since then, including better POSIX compliance. It may be worth looking at :). I don't know what version of patch they started with though. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/patch/ -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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