On 08/10 21:06, David S. wrote:
> > There's no BSD-licensed browser, afaik.  I assume that's the reason.  We
> > distribute some GPL stuff with the base system, mostly development tools
> > (e.g. gcc, ld).  Others, like grep, are deemed essential for normal use
> > but expendable in production.
> 
> 
> OpenBSD has lately dropped GNU 'grep' for 'freegrep', a BSD-licensed 
> 'grep':
> 
> 	http://www.freshports.org/textproc/freegrep/

We've got it in othersrc:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/othersrc/usr.bin/grep/

I've never seen it said, but I assume that the plan is to eventually use
this instead of GNU grep.