Re: newer versions of gnu diff and patch
From: Greg Lewis (glewis_at_eyesbeyond.com)
Date: 07/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:56:02 -0600 To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:41:32PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> What we would like to do is to move to a bsd-licensed version of
> patch, which I am supposed to be working on in my copious spare
> time...
OpenBSD appear to gotten permission from Larry Wall to put patch(1) under
a BSD license. They also appear to have made a reasonable number of
improvements since then, including better POSIX compliance. It may
be worth looking at :). I don't know what version of patch they started
with though.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/patch/
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