dwb : groff replacement proposal

[Garrett Cooper]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Steve Kargl
<sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 05:18:43AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>>
>> seen on http://wiki.freebsd.org/ContribSoftware, groff have switch
>> to GPLv3 license, so,
>
> So what?  The version of groff in the src/ isn't
> going to suddenly stop working.  Please send this
> type of email to free-advocacy or freebsd-chat.
> It has no place here.

Steve,
    I do see his point because bitrot software doesn't help, and apart
from our toolchain and a few other things, a lot of the GNU software
is being forced out eventually. groff hasn't been touched in ages
however.
    Regardless, there's already work being done to remedy this in the
FreeBSD community; see:
http://www.freebsdnews.net/2009/05/11/deprecating-groff-bsd-manual-display/
for one link.
Thanks,
-Garrett