From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 30 18:57:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFDCC16A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:57:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mgr2.xmission.com (mgr2.xmission.com [198.60.22.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90ED43D2F for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:57:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from [198.60.22.207] (helo=mgr7.xmission.com) by mgr2.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BqcY1-0002JK-02; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:56:05 -0600 Received: from [166.70.56.15] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mgr7.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BqcY0-0007aC-SE; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:56:05 -0600 Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (localhost.eyesbeyond.com [127.0.0.1]) i6UIu3n4052912; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:56:03 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i6UIu2Qa052911; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:56:02 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:56:02 -0600 From: Greg Lewis To: Garance A Drosihn Message-ID: <20040730185602.GA52746@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20040730154011.GA98131@sanatana.dharma> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mgr7.xmission.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=8.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 166.70.56.15 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: glewis@eyesbeyond.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.0 (built Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:31:30 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mgr7.xmission.com) cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newer versions of gnu diff and patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:57:42 -0000 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