newer versions of gnu diff and patch
Greg Lewis
glewis at eyesbeyond.com
Fri Jul 30 11:57:42 PDT 2004
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:41:32PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> What we would like to do is to move to a bsd-licensed version of
> patch, which I am supposed to be working on in my copious spare
> time...
OpenBSD appear to gotten permission from Larry Wall to put patch(1) under
a BSD license. They also appear to have made a reasonable number of
improvements since then, including better POSIX compliance. It may
be worth looking at :). I don't know what version of patch they started
with though.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/patch/
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