<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Kreuzer</b> <<a href="mailto:skreuzer@f2o.org">skreuzer@f2o.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Greetings-<br><br>OpenBSD includes a version of sdiff written by our very own Ray<br>Lai, and released to the public domain.
<br><br>In a quest to remove as much GPL code from FreeBSD as possible, I<br>ported it over.</blockquote>
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<div>Hi all!</div>
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<div>I was just reading a thread concerning this very topic on diff utilities<br>this weekend on a dragonfly bsd list (some obscure unreleated search<br>brought me there). I was especially concerned with Dillon's reply:
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<p> <a href="http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/submit/2004-02/msg00123.html">http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/submit/2004-02/msg00123.html</a></p>
<p>" Compared to all the gnu junk we depend on, I don't know why people<br> would be concerned over something as simple-stupid as 'diff'. I see<br> no advantage (or disadvantage) to changing our diff."
<br> <br>I disagree with Mr. Dillon. This sort of ideology does not seem BSD-like.<br>Its a very simple replacement. A hundred of these replacements can really<br>add up to something!</p>
<p>I also enjoy the availability of software in /usr/src for hacking without<br>restrictions. /usr/src lives on my desktop as a reference manual, and one<br>that I can build on, borrow from, or reuse as I see fit in my own
<br>programs. Running into code that is also GPL licensed is a real bummer<br>when you're deep into a run... I stop thinking about hacking and start<br>thinking about legal shit.</p></div></div>