BSD-licensed gzip, grep and diff families in OpenBSD

2003-08-22 Thread Arjan van Leeuwen
Hi, It seems that OpenBSD now has BSD licensed versions of the gzip, grep and diff families (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=105899089116252w=2). Wouldn't it be a good idea to import them into FreeBSD? Best regards, Arjan ___

Re: BSD-licensed gzip, grep and diff families in OpenBSD

2003-08-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:02:21AM +0200, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: Hi, It seems that OpenBSD now has BSD licensed versions of the gzip, grep and diff families (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=105899089116252w=2). Wouldn't it be a good idea to import them into FreeBSD?

Re: BSD-licensed gzip, grep and diff families in OpenBSD

2003-08-22 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:03:39PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: Only if they are relatively feature-complete with respect to the GNU code and don't have significant regressions (e.g. one of the BSDL reimplementations of grep floating around out there performs significantly worse than GNU

Re: BSD-licensed gzip, grep and diff families in OpenBSD

2003-08-22 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Arjan van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that OpenBSD now has BSD licensed versions of the gzip, grep and diff families (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=105899089116252w=2). Wouldn't it be a good idea to import them into FreeBSD? Yes, maybe, no. gzip should