BSD-licensed gzip, grep and diff families in OpenBSD

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:02:21AM +0200, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that OpenBSD now has BSD licensed versions of the gzip, grep and diff 
> families (see 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105899089116252&w=2). Wouldn't 
> it be a good idea to import them into FreeBSD?

Only if they are relatively feature-complete with respect to the GNU
code and don't have significant regressions (e.g. one of the BSDL
reimplementations of grep floating around out there performs
significantly worse than GNU grep).  Perhaps you could investigate for
us.

Kris
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