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-li...@klop.ws> wrote: > > > On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:17:23 +0100, Julian Elischer <jul...@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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
