From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sun Nov 6 16:11:56 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C64C30269 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 16:11:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rumrunner@terraplane.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEF1262 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 16:11:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rumrunner@terraplane.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 4C3F1C30268; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 16:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDA7C30267 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 16:11:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rumrunner@terraplane.org) Received: from nmsh3.e.nsc.no (nmsh3.e.nsc.no [193.213.121.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC1525E; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 16:11:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rumrunner@terraplane.org) Received: from terraplane.org (ti0027a400-1368.bb.online.no [88.88.96.95]) by nmsh3.nsc.no (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id uA6Fb9tO017271 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 6 Nov 2016 16:37:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from terraplane.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by terraplane.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id uA6FbYWr025129; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 16:37:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rumrunner@terraplane.org) Received: (from rumrunner@localhost) by terraplane.org (8.14.5/8.13.8/Submit) id uA6FbYmw025128; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 16:37:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rumrunner) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 16:37:33 +0100 From: Eivind Nicolay Evensen To: Mark Heily Cc: Ronald Klop , Eivind Nicolay Evensen , Baptiste Daroussin , Julian Elischer , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12 Message-ID: <20161106153733.GB19203@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> References: <20160911133804.a7j7p3x2viqzcpec@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20161025182730.GA60030@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 16:11:56 -0000 On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 05:31:47PM -0400, Mark Heily wrote: > On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Ronald Klop wrote: > > > On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:17:23 +0100, Julian Elischer > > 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. In my use of it, just plain keeping versions of files containing only text in them, I haven't seen the need for a maintainer since there has not been any problems. Is there a real problem I should be aware of? -- Eivind