Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:24:28 +0200
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@freebsd.org>
Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: RFC: removal of share/doc/{papers,psd,smm,usd} in 2 months
Message-ID: <201210201224.q9KCOSvN097641@fire.js.berklix.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message "Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:52:17 %2B0200." <20121020115217.GI69724@acme.spoerlein.net>
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Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= wrote: > On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 12:14:28 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: > > On 19 October 2012 10:36, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Should people feel strongly about them, we might be able to move them > > > over to the doc repository. > > > > Moving them to the doc repo loses the history, for what gain? > > > > You mention that the roff sources are 'naughty'. Are they holding up > > some project? > > Replying to this only here: If you have a look at your calendar, you > might get the reference :) > > They are holding up the removal of groff from the base system, which we > can no longer update thanks to the project policy wrt. GPLv3. It's awful damage from just not wanting to upgrade to a new groff with GPL3, to also throwing out older working groff plus text sources formatted by it. I use groff daily. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. Not: HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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