Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:20:17 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using bzip2 to compress man-pages Message-ID: <43338281.90104@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <43336B8D.3010008@mac.com> References: <200509220446.j8M4kBPA019823@blue.virtual-estates.net> <200509221652.54123.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <184C5FE7-B956-43E8-AC60-68EA6D5337BB@mac.com> <200509222130.18284.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <43336B8D.3010008@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>
>> Reducing reliance on GNU software remains an extra bonus...
>
> Certainly, there exists GNU software which makes me cringe, but gzip
> isn't part of that group. I suppose there's a preference for
> BSD-licensed code rather than GPL'ed code, but I'd expect gzip and zlib
> to be a part of FreeBSD for the foreseeable future...
Useful facts:
* zlib is not GPLed. The license is essentially a BSD license.
<http://www.zlib.net/zlib_license.html>;
* There are both GPL and non-GPL versions of gzip. The
non-GPL version is based on zlib; the GPL version uses
its own separate compression/decompression code.
I believe OpenBSD uses the non-GPL gzip.
Cheers,
Tim
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