diff is a little diff -- erent

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 6:46 PM Doug Denault <doug at safeport.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020, Polytropon wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 01:30:38 -0400 (EDT), Doug Denault wrote:
> >> I do wonder why. Who is going to go to the effort to build/install
> "base"
> >> commands as various options are removed/changed? I can't wait to see
> what
> >> happens to cp, grep, find, and awk.
> >
> > If I remember correctly, grep already is BSD grep (with GNU grep
> > being available via ports collection), and the same for awk (and
> > gawk respectively). In most cases, the base commands implement
> > the set of standard features, while the GNU commands have certain
> > GNU extensions added which the standard does not require or even
> > specify. This, and the licensing terms (BDSL / GPL) that apply.
> >
> Thanks, a perfectly reasonable response to my less than reasonable post.
> Lost in my histrionics was my question. We have morphed from, "I will not
> stop you from doing something stupid ..." to We are going to take away
> some options that have been there for 25 years (that I know of) because
> "?-----?". Having the blank filled in is what I was going for.
>
> After all these years I do not know which of the scores of commands I use
> are GNU versus BCD. The man pages probably says but I have enough trouble
> remembering all the options in ls, find, and awk that I use, much less
> are they GNU or not. As written in /usr/src, the change seems rather
> arbitrary. My 'real' question: is there a reason to make this change?
>
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License of GNU software is GPL which is NOT a commercially usable license .

For that reason , FreeBSD is clearing out the GNU software from its base
system by replacing them with BSD licensed similar software developed by
FreeBSD specialist volunteers without implementing unnecessary GNU
extensions .

To support FreeBSD user's operations using GNU software , such software
parts are moved into ports which do not affect the license of base system
usage .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk