[Heads Up] RCS removed from base
Cy Schubert
Cy.Schubert at komquats.com
Tue Oct 8 20:21:21 UTC 2013
In message <52538562.6030703 at freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer writes:
> 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.
Probably a good idea. Though I've put a rcs57 port in place, ports need to
be updated and probably a little more warning would have been nice.
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Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at komquats.com>
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