Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:05:19 -0400 From: "matt donovan" <kitchetech@gmail.com> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: unga888@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not GNU cmp? Message-ID: <28283d910809240805x788e8a52uda107bcea9459af9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080924103109.b827bdaa.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <873547.5011.qm@web57004.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20080924103109.b827bdaa.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>wrote: > Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > I have noted FreeBSD uses GNU diff, GNU diff3 and GNU sdiff. Why FreeBSD > uses its own version of cmp? why not use GNU cmp? Is the GNU cmp not > compatible with FreeBSD? > > The GNU version of cmp is not licensed under the BSD license. > > Given enough time/manpower, all the GNU tools in FreeBSD will eventually > be replaced with BSD-licensed versions. > > -- > Bill Moran > http://www.potentialtech.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > and it's not GNU diff it's BSD diff
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