Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:27:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: "Jorge Mario G." <murcielako@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: eliminating GPL apps on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0412172211180.21256-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <20041218015853.11444.qmail@web50303.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Jorge Mario G. wrote:
> it would be nice if we could integrate all the
> re-written parts, or at least the FreeBSD project
> could do it. so that way we would reduce the GPL code
> in the system
> shouldnt be there an iniciative to do this?
>
> P.S.: I'm doing what I can to make this happen
Make a up-to-date list of what software is needed and how well it is
working.
I'll start your list:
bc/dc -- I hear that OpenBSD is working on this, but also a NetBSD
developer (who also wrote a lot or maintained the GNU equivalents) has
BSD-licensed versions too.
{g,n,t}roff -- I think I heard that someone is using an old BSD licensed
version dating back to early 1990's and before. I have used cawf (for
almost a year) with some custom macros, but it needs a lot of work.
cc and c++ -- two tendra projects; seems like they should join back
together?
as (assembler) and ld (linker)
gcc related libraries
sendmail replacement -- my outbound mailout has been in use for a few
years, but needs a lot of work.
binutils
gdb
gprof?
rcs?
Some things already done (but not necessarily used yet): cpio, diff?,
patch?, grep, gzip, sort, tar, dialog, gettext, bc/dc.
Jeremy C. Reed
open source, Unix, *BSD, Linux training
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
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