From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 30 19:18:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FDE16A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:18:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9083243D39 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:18:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i6UJI8KX015355; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:18:09 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040730185602.GA52746@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20040730154011.GA98131@sanatana.dharma> <20040730185602.GA52746@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:18:07 -0400 To: Greg Lewis From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newer versions of gnu diff and patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:18:35 -0000 At 12:56 PM -0600 7/30/04, Greg Lewis wrote: >On Fri, Jul 30, 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > What we would like to do is to move to a bsd-licensed version of >> patch, which I am supposed to be working on in my copious spare >> time... > >OpenBSD appear to gotten permission from Larry Wall to put patch(1) >under a BSD license. They also appear to have made a reasonable >number of improvements since then, including better POSIX compliance. >It may be worth looking at :). I don't know what version of patch >they started with though. > >http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/patch/ Indeed. Both NetBSD and OpenBSD have BSD-licensed versions of patch. That's what I was supposed to start with. The thing is, all three versions (Net, Open, Free) have different improvements to them. I really should get going on this, but right now my spare time is spent trying to track down other problems with my FreeBSD machines... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu