From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 02:13:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2C3106566B for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:13:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [IPv6:2607:f678:1010::34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AEF38FC0A for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:13:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id o8L2D5i1007403 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:13:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id o8L2D5uW007402; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:13:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fbsd61 by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA04288; Mon, 20 Sep 10 19:01:16 PDT Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:07:17 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: snabb@epipe.com Message-Id: <4c981355.wc2y7hyfF2XUaLmh%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4C91446F.3090202@bsdforen.de> <20100916171744.GA48415@hades.panopticon> <4C927ED0.5050307@bsdforen.de> <86zkvhfhaa.fsf@gmail.com> <4C92C14D.3010005@FreeBSD.org> <4C92F195.5000605@FreeBSD.org> <4C93A107.4070809@DataIX.net> <4c93f602.pzTXVEQ+3q2cRA23%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4C94617B.3080702@bsdforen.de> <20100918141727.22a81b66@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <4C95AFE4.30608@DataIX.net> <174981284967033@web24.yandex.ru> <4c975197.1fY0dTyqrEwwwGi5%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:13:17 -0000 Janne Snabb wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > One issue with either Git or Mercurial is that they are GPL. > > AFAIK FreeBSD prefers to avoid GPL in the base or in critical > > widely-used infrastructure if a viable non-GPL alternative > > exists. > > The project currently uses Perforce for many sub-projects, > so using GPL licenced solution could hardly be a problem. According to the "General Information" table here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software Perforce is not GPL -- it is proprietary (but "Free ... for OSS development"). Thus the fact that FreeBSD currently uses Perforce tells us nothing about the acceptability of a GPL licensed solution. (Ditto for SVN, which -- as someone already pointed out -- is not GPL either.) There are two distributed, BSD-licensed VCS listed on that page: Codeville and Fossil. Both are in ports, but Codeville has been proposed for removal as it seems no longer to be under active development. That leaves Fossil as a possibly-viable BSD-licensed alternative to Mercurial. (Of course, there may be others that aren't listed on that particular Wikipedia page.)