[Heads Up] RCS removed from base

[Julian Elischer]

On 10/8/13 10:03 AM, Steve Rikli wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 06:32:21PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> On 10/7/13 6:30 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>> ...
>>> PS: As noted, the code is GPL.  There has been an effort
>>> to remove GPL code from FreeBSD (whether prudent or not).
>> That plus the age of the code is good enough reason to ditch it! huzzah!
>> Plus we can make RCSBSD along with it.
> Is such a project underway?  I.e. an RCS of some kind from FreeBSD?
>
> OpenBSD went through this a while ago and use OpenRCS -- is that even
> remotely appropriate for use in FreeBSD?
>
> >From reading most of both thread(s), it seems there's at least some
> interest in keeping an RCS in base; whether it's the status quo RCS
> (w/GPL) doesn't seem to be strictly required, as long as whichever RCS
> is available in base is (mostly?) compatible with status quo RCS.

the prudent path is to put the original back
before 10 and arange to replace it by 11
I'm officially asking core to allow this to stop what I consider a bad 
POLA problem.
it can not be said that there was no pushback against this change.
and it was sprung on us with no real warning.



>
> sr.
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