MidnightBSD Developer Journal

Steven Kreuzer has ported OpenBSD's BSD licensed sdiff to FreeBSD.  I'm experimenting with this tonight.  If it seems to be working well, I will commit it to current.  Please send in objections.  Below is the e-mail:

On 5/17/07, Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer at f2o.org> wrote:
>
> Greetings-
>
> OpenBSD includes a version of sdiff written by our very own Ray
> Lai, and released to the public domain.
>
> In a quest to remove as much GPL code from FreeBSD as possible, I
> ported it over.
>
> If you want to try it out, You can download the source at
> http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer/code/sdiff.tar.gz
>
> To install:
> $ su -
> # cd to /usr/src
> # patch -p0 < /path/to/sdiff-cvs-merge.patch
> # sh /path/to/sdiff.shar
> # make buildworld && make installworld
>
> Let me know if you encounter any problems. I would like to see if
> I can get the GNU version of sdiff removed and replaced with this
> in FreeBSD. It might be somewhat of an uphill battle, but it is
> worth a shot.
>
> --
> Steven Kreuzer
> http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer