From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 10:34:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CE2237B401 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 10:34:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D88C43FA3 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 10:34:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h42HXq921753; Fri, 2 May 2003 14:33:53 -0300 Message-ID: <3EB2AC00.7070307@tcoip.com.br> Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 14:33:52 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Seck References: <20030502171957.28624.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030502171957.28624.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 17:34:21 -0000 Thomas Seck wrote: > * Garrett Wollman (wollman@lcs.mit.edu): > > >>The correct answer for one of these has no implications on any of >>the others. > > > I am just a user but I'll second that. > > Am I the only one who thinks that some people are on a "kill the GNU, > kill it now, no matter the cost" trip again? > > I can see no benefit in switching to bzip2 other than eliminating GPL'ed > software. No, I do not think disk space is an issue nowadays. If two programs do the same thing, but one is GPL and the other is not, the other one is clearly preferable for FreeBSD. As far as _ports_ are concerned, it is irrelevant. As far as the _base_ system is concerned, the less we depend on GPL, the better. The "sole benefit" you see is clearly enough of a benefit. There _are_ good reasons to reduce dependency on GPL, y'know. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net "I think sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it."