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From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:17:23AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> why should we remove it?

IIUC the plan for several years has been to remove all GPLed software
from base.

But in any case the conversation is moot.  It was removed from head
on 20161015 by bapt:

  https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=307351

UPDATING contains notes about how to install it on your system.

mcl