Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 00:00:20 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" Message-ID: <20030626233822.W24605-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <xzp1xxg8u2v.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> writes: > > bc - an undergrad could re-implement based on man page > > With a good arbitrary-precision math library, yes. The one we have > happens to be GPLed. > but do we need it? > > bzip2 - could be reimplemented > > More like "doesn't really belong in the base system". Yes, I know it > compresses better than libz, but it is significantly slower and more > memory-intensive. > bzip2 is not - and has not ever been - gpl licenced. In fact, i somebody botheres to take a look at /usr/src/contrib/bzip2/LICENCE they will see something that is inbetween 4-cluase BSD licence and apache licence. I really don't see what would be achieved from a pure 2-clause bsd licence reimplementation, imho it would be pretty pointless As for belonging in the base system - it has roughly the same relevance as gzip or gcc or similar. Uninclusion of it would be very awkward.
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