Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:01:17 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: groff alternative? Message-ID: <20050616100117.GG50157@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <42B10804.2010308@mac.com> References: <20050615054209.L29741@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <20050615160741.GA55062@dragon.NUXI.org> <88862BDF-ED45-42CE-9B24-DEEED2E66C2C@mac.com> <20050615.212337.108191340.imp@bsdimp.com> <42B10804.2010308@mac.com>
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On Thu, 2005-Jun-16 01:03:00 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: >Perhaps there won't be a rush of code adoption from OpenSolaris into >FreeBSD, but it would be a surprise and a pity if there was nothing to be >learned. I'd imagine that the Solaris NFS code would be worth looking at, >for instance. Agreed. But we want to be ensure that any improvements that are made to FreeBSD don't impact the code's existing license: It's one thing to swap a GPL groff for a CDDL troff but winding up with Sun claiming that FreeBSD's NFS is a derivative of the Solaris NFS would be a serious problem for the FreeBSD Project. >Lots of license flavors are handled OK via src/contrib and throughout the >entire ports collection now. It's not as if CDDL-licensed code is going to >sneak up and infect existing BSD-licensed code; the two licenses are >miscible. The non-BSD-licensed code is deliberately kept in src/contrib so that it can be easily isolated for vendors who want to restrict themselves to a BSD-licensed system. >M. Warner Losh wrote: >>Anyway, since we don't ship groff/roff/etc with the systems we create, >>this specific program doesn't matter much... > >4-sec% /usr/bin/nroff --version >GNU nroff (groff) version 1.19 ... >This seems to be from src/contrib/groff? I believe Warner was referring to the embedded systems he builds as a day-job rather than the FreeBSD Project. IMHO, the fewer different licenses used by the FreeBSD base system the better. If FreeBSD needs to grow a CDDL (for part of the base system) the Solaris troff needs to offer significant benefits. -- Peter Jeremy
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