Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:03:39 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD-licensed gzip, grep and diff families in OpenBSD Message-ID: <20030823000339.GA99414@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200308230102.21879.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> References: <200308230102.21879.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
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--LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:02:21AM +0200, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: > Hi, >=20 > It seems that OpenBSD now has BSD licensed versions of the gzip, grep and= diff=20 > families (see=20 > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dopenbsd-misc&m=3D105899089116252&w=3D2)= . Wouldn't=20 > it be a good idea to import them into FreeBSD? Only if they are relatively feature-complete with respect to the GNU code and don't have significant regressions (e.g. one of the BSDL reimplementations of grep floating around out there performs significantly worse than GNU grep). Perhaps you could investigate for us. Kris --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Rq9bWry0BWjoQKURApfZAJ9xPiA3Dk2fx9aGy39hgwMqPwaVnQCfSEG1 +ppJcAopWUe2RJ0ncDN484s= =yHiN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X--
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