Re: newer versions of gnu diff and patch

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 07/30/04

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    Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:18:07 -0400
To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>

    At 12:56 PM -0600 7/30/04, Greg Lewis wrote:
    >On Fri, Jul 30, 2004, 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/

    Indeed. Both NetBSD and OpenBSD have BSD-licensed versions of
    patch. That's what I was supposed to start with. The thing is,
    all three versions (Net, Open, Free) have different improvements
    to them. I really should get going on this, but right now my
    spare time is spent trying to track down other problems with my
    FreeBSD machines... 

    -- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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