Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:12:19 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org> To: Diane Bruce <db@db.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why not give git a try? (was "Re: [head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64") Message-ID: <AANLkTimQDxrhmcRJLm=zVy8KzcBbAn0ECQz_tPWwmOvq@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110124194830.GA70207@night.db.net> References: <AANLkTi=-VsVpXH-549UNuHcNZfBH_YHrN-9JBpgWh4A8@mail.gmail.com> <ihjv30$rmd$1@dough.gmane.org> <20110124183102.GB68940@night.db.net> <AANLkTikXs39MQ4kvM4=thoANn596zTGSB=PfTQ545Fon@mail.gmail.com> <20110124194830.GA70207@night.db.net>
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Diane Bruce <db@db.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 08:02:37PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> On 24 January 2011 19:31, Diane Bruce <db@db.net> wrote:
>>
>> > As long as it is not GPL.
>>
>> Unless there's a missing smiley in that sentence there, it is a tough
>
> IRL I'm known to be very dry humoured, I am deadly in e-mail or IRC.
>
>> requirement. Of the major SCMs, only Subversion is non-GPL-ed (even
>
> QED
>
>> CVS is...).
>
> CVS is/was dual licenced. There is also the work openbsd started with CVS
> sometime ago.
>
> Given the work that is being done on clang/llvm to get a non GPL compiler
> into the tree, perhaps efforts would be better spent on finding SCMs
> that were also non GPL. There certainly would not be a chance of putting
> mercurial or git into base for example.
But we don't compile CVS, SVN, etc into our sources. I thought
that was the whole point of doing the gcc -> clang (and friends)
conversion, not that the GPL is an undesirable license. Maybe I was
missing something about the whole textproc stuff being replaced though
(groff, etc) with NetBSD equivalents *shrugs*.
Given that this is getting more philosophical than technical,
maybe we should move the discussion elsewhere (i.e. not hackers@)?
> Perhaps a point to consider.
Thanks!
-Garrett
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