Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:45:53 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Ben Mesander <ben@timing.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diff(1) Message-ID: <p06110428bd70ee3b2bfa@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com> References: <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com>
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At 10:34 AM -0600 9/17/04, Ben Mesander wrote: >Hi, > > I've recently done a port of OpenBSD diff(1) to FreeBSD for >licensing reasons (the diff(1) in base FreeBSD is GPL licensed), >OpenBSD has a BSD-style license). > > I was going to work with Warner to see if I could get this into >the ports collection. But we were also curious to see if other >people thought it might be OK to replace the GNU diff in base >with the OpenBSD diff. I think that FreeBSD should prefer BSD-licensed utilities whenever they are available and work well enough. (and when they have all the features that people are used to for that utility). Assuming OpenBSD's diff does the job, I'm all for having us switch to it. It makes more sense for gnu's diff to be the version that ends up available as a port. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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