Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:24:38 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Heads Up] RCS removed from base Message-ID: <201310082024.r98KOc5l058011@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> of "Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:42:01 %2B0800." <52538D19.8000505@freebsd.org>
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In message <52538D19.8000505@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer writes:
> On 10/8/13 12:34 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org
> > <mailto:julian@freebsd.org>> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/8/13 9:33 AM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 08:41:38PM -0400, George Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > On 10/07/13 20:28, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >
> > Julian Elischer wrote this message on Tue, Oct 08,
> > 2013 at 08:01 +0800:
> >
> > not a big thing but I believe that a lot of
> > poeple use ci/co on /etc
> > becasue it is "just there"
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Folks, this is just plain a major violation of the
> > Principle of Least
> > Amazement. RCS is ideal for keeping track of my
> > configuration files
> > in /etc. What do we gain by removing it?
> >
> > Less GPL code in FreeBSD?
> >
> > not a problem unless you plan in shipping a changed version of
> > it on your product??
> >
> >
> >
> > Most new versions of GPL licensed code are converted to Version 3 GPL .
> >
> > This is blocking FreeBSD if they keep GPL licensed code in base ,
> > because commercial companies usingFreeBSD are not able to use
> > FreeBSD any more if the FreeBSD switches to Version 3 GPL .
> >
> > This obstacle is in the base system GCC : It stayed in an older
> > version , and necessitated to switch to Clang/LLVM .
> >
> > Difficulty of such a switch is apparenly known .
> > Therefore cleaning base from GPL licensed code is a vital
> > requirement for further progress WITH RESPECT TO FreeBSD Project
> > structure .
> >
> > Thank you very much .
>
> sure but lets keep the one one in the the tree untill there is a
> replacement ready to commit. ro 10 will have NO RCS which is a POLA.
We do now have an rcs57 port which is the same as what was in base. The
port could be made to _optionally_ install into /usr instead of
${LOCALBASE}.
--
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>
FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org
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