From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 5 3:46:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep16-int.chello.nl (amsfep16-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545F637B418; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 03:46:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org ([62.163.96.180]) by amsfep16-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20011105114323.VLCE2039.amsfep16-int.chello.nl@daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org>; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:43:23 +0100 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA5Bjpn93057; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:45:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:45:50 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One True Awk licensing Message-ID: <20011105124550.N83053@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <200111050201.fA5210404370@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200111050201.fA5210404370@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20011105 03:30], Bruce A. Mah (bmah@freebsd.org) wrote: >bwk wanted us to let him know if we decide to use it, because he has a >few minor code fixes (no feature changes) he'd like us to take too. > >(This all happened before we ran into the problem with needing POSIX.1 >character class support, and DES's subsequent patch to incorporate this >feature.) So we can become/are becoming/are willing to become the bwk maintainers? Personally it would be cool to do so. Anyone know or have contact with Henry Spencer? I can remember he was supposed to release his new regexp library, which would speed up freegrep as well. Otherwise I see the necessity to start maintaining this library as well. [Yes, I'd rather push as many GNU utilities from the tree if we can offer sufficient BSDL'd alternatives.] -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai / Kita no Mono asmodai@[wxs.nl|[freebsd|xmach].org], finger asmodai@ninth-circle.dnsalias.net http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ Love is suicide... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message