On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Julian Elischer <julian_at_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 . Mehmet Erol SanliturkReceived on Tue Oct 08 2013 - 02:34:52 UTC
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