HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Thomas Seck wrote:
> * Daniel C. Sobral (dcs at tcoip.com.br):
> 
> 
>>Thomas Seck wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I can see no benefit in switching to bzip2 other than eliminating GPL'ed
>>>software. No, I do not think disk space is an issue nowadays.
>>
>>If two programs do the same thing, but one is GPL and the other is not, 
>>the other one is clearly preferable for FreeBSD.
> 
> 
> Why? For religious reasons maybe.

Religious as in "we want people to be able to get our stuff and sell it 
with whatever they chose to add without them having to open *their* 
source code".

If you truly believe our choice for BSD-like licenses is anything but an 
informed, conscious choice, please research more about it before saying 
anything more.

>>The "sole benefit" you see is clearly enough of a benefit. There _are_ 
>>good reasons to reduce dependency on GPL, y'know.
> 
> Sorry, but then you would have to replace binutils, gcc, groff, and many
> other things too. But this has been discussed to death already.

Yes, and whenever we can, we do. Some things we can't, so we don't.

As for this having been discussed to death, that's true. Unfortunately, 
if that's your view, you haven't read these discussions.

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