[Heads Up] RCS removed from base

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 10/8/13 9:33 AM, Steve Kargl wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 08:41:38PM -0400, George Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/07/13 20:28, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>>>
>>>> Julian Elischer wrote this message on Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:01 +0800:
>>>>
>>>>> not a big thing but I believe that a lot of poeple use ci/co on /etc
>>>>> becasue it is "just there"
>>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>>  Folks, this is just plain a major violation of the Principle of Least
>>> Amazement.  RCS is ideal for keeping track of my configuration files
>>> in /etc.  What do we gain by removing it?
>>>
>> Less GPL code in FreeBSD?
>>
> not a problem unless you plan in shipping a changed version of it on your
> product??
>
>

Most new versions of GPL licensed code are converted to Version 3 GPL .

This is blocking FreeBSD if they keep GPL licensed code in base , because
commercial companies usingFreeBSD are not able to use FreeBSD any more if
the FreeBSD switches to Version 3 GPL .

This obstacle is in the base system GCC : It stayed in an older version ,
and necessitated to switch to Clang/LLVM .

Difficulty of such a switch is  apparenly known .
Therefore cleaning base from GPL licensed code is a vital requirement for
further progress WITH RESPECT TO FreeBSD Project structure .

Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk