From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 18 10:46: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.atl.bellsouth.net (mail2.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106D414E6F for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:45:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-216-78-101-3.asm.bellsouth.net [216.78.101.3]) by mail2.atl.bellsouth.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15438; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:45:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA03329; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:50:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199909181750.NAA03329@bellsouth.net> To: Shigio Yamaguchi Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU GLOBAL In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:48:19 +0900." <199909181348.WAA02472@tamacom.com> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:50:31 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't see much of a problem, other than requiring its removal from the FreeBSD source tree. Although FreeBSD has a 'contrib' and 'gnu' hierarchy in the source tree, I believe the trend should be to reduce the existing members there and also to avoid adding new ones. imho, global (a fine software package) shouldn't have been in the OS source tree anyway. To me, the proper place seems to be in the ports collection along with many other development utilities. I don't agree with your perceptions of the GNU license but do respect your decision as the author to choose whatever license you wish. I'll be preparing a port for global this afternoon and submitting a change request to have it removed from the source tree in favor of using the port on FreeBSD. Thank you very much for global! :-) Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message