[Heads Up] RCS removed from base

[Julian Elischer]

On 10/8/13 12:34 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org 
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>     On 10/8/13 9:33 AM, Steve Kargl wrote:
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>         On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 08:41:38PM -0400, George Mitchell wrote:
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>             On 10/07/13 20:28, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
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>                 Julian Elischer wrote this message on Tue, Oct 08,
>                 2013 at 08:01 +0800:
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>                     not a big thing but I believe that a lot of
>                     poeple use ci/co on /etc
>                     becasue it is "just there"
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>             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?
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>         Less GPL code in FreeBSD?
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>     not a problem unless you plan in shipping a changed version of
>     it on your product??
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> Most new versions of GPL licensed code are converted to Version 3 GPL .
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> 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 .
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> This obstacle is in the base system GCC : It stayed in an older 
> version , and necessitated to switch to Clang/LLVM .
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> 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 .
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> Thank you very much .

sure but lets keep the one one in the the tree untill there is a 
replacement ready to commit. ro 10 will have NO RCS which is a POLA.

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> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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