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Date:      Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:24:28 +0200
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To:        Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: removal of share/doc/{papers,psd,smm,usd} in 2 months 
Message-ID:  <201210201224.q9KCOSvN097641@fire.js.berklix.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message "Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:52:17 %2B0200." <20121020115217.GI69724@acme.spoerlein.net> 

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Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 12:14:28 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > On 19 October 2012 10:36, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > Should people feel strongly about them, we might be able to move them
> > > over to the doc repository.
> > 
> > Moving them to the doc repo loses the history, for what gain?
> > 
> > You mention that the roff sources are 'naughty'. Are they holding up
> > some project?
> 
> Replying to this only here: If you have a look at your calendar, you
> might get the reference :)
> 
> They are holding up the removal of groff from the base system, which we
> can no longer update thanks to the project policy wrt. GPLv3.

It's awful damage from just not wanting to upgrade to a new groff
with GPL3, to also throwing out older working groff plus text sources
formatted by it.  I use groff daily.

Cheers,
Julian
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