diff(1)

[Garance A Drosihn]

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.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu