Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:40:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gettext Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0006231420001.14403-100000@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <8ivvet$24lt$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de>
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> > What do people think about including gettext into base distribution? > > It's under the GPL (not even LGPL). :-( The xgettext that comes with xview seems to have a less restrictive license (I doubt we'd want to use Sun's patented icons or tout it as "`OPEN LOOK' compatible"). There's already a ton of GPL code in FreeBSD though: $ cd /home/ncvs $ du -k sys/gnu|tail -1 2765 sys/gnu $ find gnu contrib/ -name COPYING,v | grep -v Attic find gnu contrib/ -name COPYING,v | grep -v Attic gnu/lib/libdialog/COPYING,v gnu/lib/libregex/COPYING,v gnu/libexec/uucp/COPYING,v gnu/usr.bin/as/COPYING,v gnu/usr.bin/dialog/COPYING,v gnu/usr.bin/grep/COPYING,v gnu/usr.bin/gzip/COPYING,v gnu/usr.bin/man/COPYING,v gnu/usr.bin/ptx/COPYING,v gnu/usr.bin/send-pr/COPYING,v gnu/usr.bin/sort/COPYING,v gnu/usr.bin/tar/COPYING,v gnu/COPYING,v contrib/amd/COPYING,v contrib/awk/COPYING,v contrib/bc/COPYING,v contrib/cpio/COPYING,v contrib/cvs/COPYING,v contrib/diff/COPYING,v contrib/gcc/COPYING,v contrib/gdb/gdb/COPYING,v contrib/gdb/COPYING,v contrib/global/COPYING,v contrib/gperf/COPYING,v contrib/groff/COPYING,v contrib/libreadline/COPYING,v contrib/ncurses/tack/COPYING,v contrib/patch/COPYING,v contrib/texinfo/COPYING,v contrib/gdb.291/COPYING,v contrib/gdb.291/gdb/COPYING,v contrib/gcc.295/COPYING,v contrib/less/COPYING,v -- Trevor Johnson http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message
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