Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:53:20 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diff(1) Message-ID: <414B40B0.5030809@sitetronics.com> In-Reply-To: <p06110428bd70ee3b2bfa@[128.113.24.47]> References: <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com> <p06110428bd70ee3b2bfa@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 10:34 AM -0600 9/17/04, Ben Mesander wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've recently done a port of OpenBSD diff(1) to FreeBSD for >> licensing reasons (the diff(1) in base FreeBSD is GPL licensed), >> OpenBSD has a BSD-style license). >> >> I was going to work with Warner to see if I could get this into >> the ports collection. But we were also curious to see if other >> people thought it might be OK to replace the GNU diff in base >> with the OpenBSD diff. > > > I think that FreeBSD should prefer BSD-licensed utilities whenever > they are available and work well enough. (and when they have all > the features that people are used to for that utility). Assuming > OpenBSD's diff does the job, I'm all for having us switch to it. > It makes more sense for gnu's diff to be the version that ends up > available as a port. Does OpenBSD's diffutils include sdiff? If not, this will be broken. --Devon
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