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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