HEADSUP: Replacing GNU gzip(1) implementation with a BSD
licensed version
Simon L. Nielsen
simon at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 26 19:48:08 UTC 2007
On 2007.01.26 18:03:48 +0800, LI Xin wrote:
> A BSD licensed gzip version has been ported from NetBSD, in order to
> replace the current GNU GPL'ed gzip version found in our base system.
>
> The new gzip would be added to src/usr.bin. It is expected to hit the
> tree soon.
Great, thanks for working on this!
So, in perhaps 3 years we don't have to support gzip wrt. security
anymore :-).
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Simon L. Nielsen
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