From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 14 20:00:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A9D16A420 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:00:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@offmyserver.com) Received: from knight.ixsystems.net (afg.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A7E43D55 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:00:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@offmyserver.com) Received: from [192.168.1.111] (afg.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.73]) by knight.ixsystems.net (8.12.10/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j5EJb4gs021317; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:37:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dodell@offmyserver.com) Message-ID: <42AF374F.3000705@offmyserver.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:00:15 -0700 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <200504262010.49509@harrymail> <20050429200029.GC232@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <200506141824.17451@harrymail> <20050614185923.GA12375@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050614185923.GA12375@dragon.NUXI.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Emanuel Strobl , Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: Re: groff alternative? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:00:43 -0000 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