Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:18:07 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newer versions of gnu diff and patch Message-ID: <p0611041bbd304ee1f5b5@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040730185602.GA52746@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20040730154011.GA98131@sanatana.dharma> <p0611041abd3045fce009@[128.113.24.47]> <20040730185602.GA52746@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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At 12:56 PM -0600 7/30/04, Greg Lewis wrote: >On Fri, Jul 30, 2004, 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/ Indeed. Both NetBSD and OpenBSD have BSD-licensed versions of patch. That's what I was supposed to start with. The thing is, all three versions (Net, Open, Free) have different improvements to them. I really should get going on this, but right now my spare time is spent trying to track down other problems with my FreeBSD machines... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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