SCM options (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?)

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 10:00 AM +0000 1/11/04, Doug Rabson wrote:
>On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 00:05, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>  >
>  > I disagree.  Andrew raised two issues (type of license and
>  > port vs base location).  The type of license is an input to
>  > the decision as to which SCM to choose - BSD preferable ...
>
>Subversion has a friendly BSD-ish license but it depends heavily
>on Sleepycat DB which doesn't. I imagine that if we do end up
>using it one day, it would be best managed as a port rather than
>part of the base system. I just don't see many people agreeing
>on importing subversion+db-4.2+apache2 into src/contrib...

Another way of approaching that is to say subversion is not-likely
to be imported *unless* we can find an acceptable BSD-licensed
database mgr to go along with it.  (I do not know how much of
Apache is needed.  Would svn *clients* need to have apache
installed, or is that only needed for machines that hold a
public repository?)

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu