In message <52538562.6030703_at_freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer writes: > On 10/8/13 10:03 AM, Steve Rikli wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 06:32:21PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >> On 10/7/13 6:30 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > >>> ... > >>> PS: As noted, the code is GPL. There has been an effort > >>> to remove GPL code from FreeBSD (whether prudent or not). > >> That plus the age of the code is good enough reason to ditch it! huzzah! > >> Plus we can make RCSBSD along with it. > > Is such a project underway? I.e. an RCS of some kind from FreeBSD? > > > > OpenBSD went through this a while ago and use OpenRCS -- is that even > > remotely appropriate for use in FreeBSD? > > > > >From reading most of both thread(s), it seems there's at least some > > interest in keeping an RCS in base; whether it's the status quo RCS > > (w/GPL) doesn't seem to be strictly required, as long as whichever RCS > > is available in base is (mostly?) compatible with status quo RCS. > > the prudent path is to put the original back > before 10 and arange to replace it by 11 > I'm officially asking core to allow this to stop what I consider a bad > POLA problem. > it can not be said that there was no pushback against this change. > and it was sprung on us with no real warning. Probably a good idea. Though I've put a rcs57 port in place, ports need to be updated and probably a little more warning would have been nice. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_komquats.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy_at_FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Tue Oct 08 2013 - 18:21:21 UTC
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