--- Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@2003.snew.com> wrote: > Quoting David S.
(davids@idiom.com):
> > > 
> > > 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/
> 
> And they've modified it to make it close to bug compatible with
> GNU grep (or at least make it behave POSIX properly).
> 
> Similar efforts have been undertaken for bsd diff (gnu diff is now
> gone from OpenBSD) and gzip (libz has all the functionality with a
> better license).
> 
> Mentioning moving to freegrep (current from openbsd) to FreeBSD
> folks got a reply of them sort of quavering about any differences
> to GNU grep.
> 
> Me?  My view is if there's a free alternative to GNU code, then it
> should be adopted and problems will get fixed.
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Does anyone else see the irony of "free" alternatives to GNU code????
This is an interesting development. There is nothing stopping anyone
from fixing GNU tools and releasing them as alternatives: they would
just have to be under the GPL.

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