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Date:      Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:00:15 -0700
From:      "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Subject:   Re: groff alternative?
Message-ID:  <42AF374F.3000705@offmyserver.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050614185923.GA12375@dragon.NUXI.org>
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David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:24:07PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> 
>>today I read a news article (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/60600) 
>>about OpenSolaris beeing released, but is there also the groff alternative 
>>included?
>>I'd love to see a lean replacment for our current gnu version.
> 
> 
> Before everyone gets all happy thinking we can incorporate all kinds of
> bits from Open Solaris - one should read the license agrement first.
> 
>     COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE Version 1.0
>     ..
>     3.1. Availability of Source Code.
>     Any Covered Software that You distribute or otherwise make available
>     in Executable form must also be made available in Source Code form
>     and that Source Code form must be distributed only under the terms of
>     this License. 
> 
> this puts the CDDL1.0 in the same boat as GPL'ed code from a BSD stand
> point.

Would troff/nroff/ps/pdf utilities from Plan 9 be usable? The license 
isn't as restrictive.

They do compile, though I think there was a bit of weirdness with the 
ps/pdf conversion stuff the last time I heard from someone doing this 
for DragonFly.

--Devon



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