On 10/8/13 12:34 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:



On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Julian Elischer <jul...@freebsd.org <mailto:jul...@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 .

sure but lets keep the one one in the the tree untill there is a replacement ready to commit. ro 10 will have NO RCS which is a POLA.



Mehmet Erol Sanliturk





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