Re: RFC: removal of share/doc/{papers,psd,smm,usd} in 2 months

From: Ulrich Spörlein <uqs_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:56:30 +0200
On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 14:24:28 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 12:14:28 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > > On 19 October 2012 10:36, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > Should people feel strongly about them, we might be able to move them
> > > > over to the doc repository.
> > > 
> > > Moving them to the doc repo loses the history, for what gain?
> > > 
> > > You mention that the roff sources are 'naughty'. Are they holding up
> > > some project?
> > 
> > Replying to this only here: If you have a look at your calendar, you
> > might get the reference :)
> > 
> > They are holding up the removal of groff from the base system, which we
> > can no longer update thanks to the project policy wrt. GPLv3.
> 
> It's awful damage from just not wanting to upgrade to a new groff
> with GPL3, to also throwing out older working groff plus text sources
> formatted by it.  I use groff daily.

There'll always be textproc/groff.

Cheers,
Uli
Received on Sat Oct 20 2012 - 12:56:37 UTC

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