[Heads Up] RCS removed from base

[Cy Schubert]

In message <52538D19.8000505 at freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer writes:
> On 10/8/13 12:34 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org 
> > <mailto: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 .
> 
> 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.

We do now have an rcs57 port which is the same as what was in base. The 
port could be made to _optionally_ install into /usr instead of 
${LOCALBASE}.


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Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at komquats.com>
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