Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 05:31:47PM -0400, Mark Heily wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:17:23 +0100, Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed
> >>>> attempt
> >>>> before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from
> >>>> FreeBSD
> >>>> 12.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >> why should we remove it?
> >>
> >
> It should be removed from base because the license was changed to GPLv3+
> about six years ago. The obsolete GPLv2 version currently in base is no
> longer maintained. I agree with the sentiment that RCS should be an
> optional component available from ports.

In my use of it, just plain keeping versions of files containing
only text in them, I haven't seen the need for a maintainer since
there has not been any problems. Is there a real problem I should be aware of?



-- 
Eivind