Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 16:37:33 +0100 From: Eivind Nicolay Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org> To: Mark Heily <mark@heily.com> Cc: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>, Eivind Nicolay Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12 Message-ID: <20161106153733.GB19203@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> In-Reply-To: <CAGfo=8kRfTGscYGAoO4hCezM520rU6ECsZjr2iqf6bk1CM0ANg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20160911133804.a7j7p3x2viqzcpec@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20161025182730.GA60030@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> <b1807e56-2be5-28fa-c570-d58a9962e06d@freebsd.org> <op.yqghejawkndu52@eveline> <CAGfo=8kRfTGscYGAoO4hCezM520rU6ECsZjr2iqf6bk1CM0ANg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 05:31:47PM -0400, Mark Heily wrote: > On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> wrote: > > > On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:17:23 +0100, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> > > wrote: > > > > On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >>> > >>>> hi, > >>>> > >>>> For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed > >>>> attempt > >>>> before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from > >>>> FreeBSD > >>>> 12. > >>>> > >>> > >> why should we remove it? > >> > > > It should be removed from base because the license was changed to GPLv3+ > about six years ago. The obsolete GPLv2 version currently in base is no > longer maintained. I agree with the sentiment that RCS should be an > optional component available from ports. In my use of it, just plain keeping versions of files containing only text in them, I haven't seen the need for a maintainer since there has not been any problems. Is there a real problem I should be aware of? -- Eivind
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