Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:00:49 +0000 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCM options (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?) Message-ID: <1073815249.5250.2.camel@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20040111000551.GC60996@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20040110032731.18864.qmail@web13422.mail.yahoo.com> <40003F4C.2000107@gamersimpact.com><4000701B.40102@cream.org> <p06020456bc2623e3e15c@[128.113.24.47]> <20040111000551.GC60996@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 00:05, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:01:13PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >At 9:35 PM +0000 1/10/04, Andrew Boothman wrote: > >>Peter Schuller wrote: > >> > >>>Most of the noteworthy features of subversion are listed > >>>on the project front page: > >>> > >>> http://subversion.tigris.org/ > >> > >>A significant one of which is the fact that it's available > >>under a BSD-style license. Meaning that the project wouldn't > >>have to rely on more GPLed code. > >> > >>I wonder if our SCM would be brought into the base system or > >>whether it would just be left in ports? > > > >We haven't even started to *test* subversion yet, so I think > >it's a bit early to worry about this question! > > I disagree. Andrew raised two issues (type of license and port vs > base location). The type of license is an input to the decision as > to which SCM to choose - BSD would be preferable but GPL is probably > acceptable (given two potential SCMs with similar features, the BSD > licensed one would be selected in preference to the GPL one). Subversion has a friendly BSD-ish license but it depends heavily on Sleepycat DB which doesn't. I imagine that if we do end up using it one day, it would be best managed as a port rather than part of the base system. I just don't see many people agreeing on importing subversion+db-4.2+apache2 into src/contrib...
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