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Date:      Sat, 5 Nov 2016 17:31:47 -0400
From:      Mark Heily <mark@heily.com>
To:        Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>
Cc:        Eivind Nicolay Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>,  Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12
Message-ID:  <CAGfo=8kRfTGscYGAoO4hCezM520rU6ECsZjr2iqf6bk1CM0ANg@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <20160911133804.a7j7p3x2viqzcpec@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20161025182730.GA60030@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> <b1807e56-2be5-28fa-c570-d58a9962e06d@freebsd.org> <op.yqghejawkndu52@eveline>

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On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:17:23 +0100, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
> On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>>
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed
>>>> attempt
>>>> before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from
>>>> FreeBSD
>>>> 12.
>>>>
>>>
>> why should we remove it?
>>
>
It should be removed from base because the license was changed to GPLv3+
about six years ago. The obsolete GPLv2 version currently in base is no
longer maintained. I agree with the sentiment that RCS should be an
optional component available from ports.



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