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Date:      Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:40:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gettext
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.21.0006231420001.14403-100000@blues.jpj.net>
In-Reply-To: <8ivvet$24lt$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de>

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> > What do people think about including gettext into base distribution?
> 
> It's under the GPL (not even LGPL). :-(

The xgettext that comes with xview seems to have a less restrictive
license (I doubt we'd want to use Sun's patented icons or tout it as
"`OPEN LOOK' compatible").  There's already a ton of GPL code in FreeBSD
though:

$ cd /home/ncvs
$ du -k sys/gnu|tail -1
2765    sys/gnu
$ find gnu contrib/ -name COPYING,v | grep -v Attic
find gnu contrib/ -name COPYING,v | grep -v Attic
gnu/lib/libdialog/COPYING,v
gnu/lib/libregex/COPYING,v
gnu/libexec/uucp/COPYING,v
gnu/usr.bin/as/COPYING,v
gnu/usr.bin/dialog/COPYING,v
gnu/usr.bin/grep/COPYING,v
gnu/usr.bin/gzip/COPYING,v
gnu/usr.bin/man/COPYING,v
gnu/usr.bin/ptx/COPYING,v
gnu/usr.bin/send-pr/COPYING,v
gnu/usr.bin/sort/COPYING,v
gnu/usr.bin/tar/COPYING,v
gnu/COPYING,v
contrib/amd/COPYING,v
contrib/awk/COPYING,v
contrib/bc/COPYING,v
contrib/cpio/COPYING,v
contrib/cvs/COPYING,v
contrib/diff/COPYING,v
contrib/gcc/COPYING,v
contrib/gdb/gdb/COPYING,v
contrib/gdb/COPYING,v
contrib/global/COPYING,v
contrib/gperf/COPYING,v
contrib/groff/COPYING,v
contrib/libreadline/COPYING,v
contrib/ncurses/tack/COPYING,v
contrib/patch/COPYING,v
contrib/texinfo/COPYING,v
contrib/gdb.291/COPYING,v
contrib/gdb.291/gdb/COPYING,v
contrib/gcc.295/COPYING,v
contrib/less/COPYING,v
--
Trevor Johnson
http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt



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