ContribSoftware - FreeBSD Wiki

This page tracks the state of third-party software in the FreeBSD base.

Kernel

Name	CVSWeb	License	Vendor	HEAD	RELENG_8	RELENG_7	RELENG_6	Contact
acpica	sys/contrib/dev/acpica	"Intel"	20091013	20091013	20090521	20070320	20041119	JungukKim
dtrace			?	?	?	-	-	JohnBirrell
ipfilter	contrib/ipfilter	BSD for userspace; restricted BSD for kernel (?)	4.1.30	4.1.27	4.1.27	4.1.23	4.1.13	DarrenReed
opensolaris	contrib/opensolaris	CDDL	?	?	?	-	-
pf	contrib/pf	BSD	4.5	4.1	4.1	4.1	3.7	MaxLaier
x86emu	contrib/x86emu	MIT / X	4.6	4.6	-	-	-	XinLi
zfs	cddl	CDDL	v15	v13	v13	v13	-	PawelJakubDawidek

Userland

Some of them live outside contrib/, for example, gnu/ and lib/.

Name	CVSWeb	License	Vendor	HEAD	RELENG_8	RELENG_7	RELENG_6	Contact
amd	contrib/amd	BSD	6.1.5	6.1.5	6.1.5	6.0.10p1	6.0.10p1	DavidOBrien
awk	contrib/one-true-awk	BSD	20071023	20071023	20071023	20070501	20050424	RuslanErmilov
bind9	contrib/bind9	BSD	9.7.0a2	9.6.1-P1	9.6.1-P1	9.4.3-P3	9.3.4	DougBarton
binutils	contrib/binutils	GPLv3	2.19.1 (GPLv2 2.17)	2.15	2.15	2.15	2.15	DavidOBrien
bzip2	contrib/bzip2	BSD	1.0.5	1.0.5	1.0.5	1.0.4	1.0.4	DavidOBrien, XinLi
clang	vendor/clang	BSD (?)	n/a	r84175	r84175	-	-	EdSchouten, RomanDivacky
cpio	contrib/cpio	GPLv3	2.10 (GPLv2 2.8)	2.8	2.8	2.6	2.6
cvs	contrib/cvs	GPLv2	1.11.23	1.11.22.1	1.11.22.1	1.11.22.1	1.11.17	PeterWemm
diff	contrib/diff	GPLv2	2.8.7	2.8.7	2.8.7	2.8.7	2.8.7	XinLi
ee	usr.bin/ee	BSD	1.5.0	1.5.0	1.5.0	1.4.2	1.4.2	EdSchouten
expat	contrib/expat	MIT / X	2.0.1	2.0.1	2.0.1	1.95.5	1.95.5	ColemanKane
file	contrib/file	BSD	5.03	5.03	5.03	4.21	4.23	DavidOBrien
gcc	contrib/gcc	GPLv3	4.4.1 (GPLv2 4.2.1)	4.2.1	4.2.1	4.2.1	3.4.6	AlexanderKabaev, GeraldPfeifer
gdb	contrib/gdb	GPLv3	6.8 (GPLv2 6.6)	6.1.1	6.1.1	6.1.1	6.1.1	DavidOBrien
gdtoa	contrib/gdtoa	BSD	20090420	20081205	20081205	?	?	DavidSchultz
gnu-sort	contrib/gnu-sort	GPLv3	7.4 (GPLv2 6.9)	5.3.0	5.3.0	5.3.0	5.3.0
gperf	contrib/gperf	GPLv3	3.0.4 (GPLv2 3.0.3)	2.7.2	2.7.2	2.7.2	2.7.2
groff	contrib/groff	GPLv3	1.20.1 (GPLv2 1.19.2)	1.19.2	1.19.2	1.19.2	1.19.2	RuslanErmilov
heimdal / com_err	crypto/heimdal contrib/com_err	BSD	1.2.1	1.1	1.1	0.6.1	0.6.1
less	contrib/less	BSD or GPLv3	436	436	436	416	416	XinLi
llvm	vendor/llvm	UoIllinois OS license (?)	2.5	r84176	r84176	-	-	EdSchouten, RomanDivacky
libf2c	contrib/libf2c	GPLv3	4.4.1 (GPLv2 4.2.1)	3.4.6	3.4.6	3.4.6	3.4.6
libobjc	contrib/libobjc	GPLv3	4.4.1 (GPLv2 4.2.1)	4.2.1	4.2.1	4.2.1	3.4.6
Name	CVSWeb	License	Vendor	HEAD	RELENG_8	RELENG_7	RELENG_6	Contact
libpcap	contrib/libpcap	BSD	1.0.0	1.0.0	1.0.0	0.9.8	0.9.4
libreadline	contrib/libreadline	GPLv3	6.0 (GPLv2 5.2)	5.2.002	5.2.002	5.2.002	5.2.002	AndreyChernov
libstdc++	contrib/libstdc++	GPLv3	4.4.1 (GPLv2 4.2.1)	4.2.1	4.2.1	4.2.1	3.4.6
lukemftp	contrib/lukemftp	BSD	20090606	2002????	2002????	2002????	2002????	DavidOBrien
lukemftpd	contrib/lukemftpd	BSD	20081009	-	-	2002????	2002????	DavidOBrien
ncurses	contrib/ncurses	MIT-like	5.7-20090808	5.7-20081102	5.7-20081102	5.6-20080503	5.6-20080503	RongEnFan
netcat	contrib/netcat	BSD	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.1	4.1	XinLi
ntp	contrib/ntp	BSDish	4.2.4p7	4.2.4p5	4.2.4p5	4.2.4p5	4.2.4p5	OllivierRobert
openbsm	contrib/openbsm	BSD	1.1p2	1.1p2	1.1p2	1.0	1.0	RobertWatson
openpam	contrib/openpam	BSD	20071221 (Hydrangea )	20071221	20071221	20071221	20071221	DagErlingSmørgrav
openssh	crypto/openssh	BSD	5.3p1	5.3p1	5.2p1	5.1p1	4.5p1	DagErlingSmørgrav
openssl	crypto/openssl	BSDish	1.0.0-beta3	0.9.8k	0.9.8k	0.9.8e	0.9.7e	SimonNielsen
pam_passwdqc	contrib/pam_modules/pam_passwdqc	BSDish	1.0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	DagErlingSmørgrav
send-pr	gnu/usr.bin/send-pr	GPLv2	4.1.0	3.2	3.2	3.2	3.2	MarkLinimon, bugmaster@
sendmail	contrib/sendmail	Sendmail (BSDish)	8.14.3	8.14.2	8.14.2	8.14.2	8.14.2	GregoryShapiro
tcpdump	contrib/tcpdump	BSD	4.0.0	4.0.0	4.0.0	3.9.8	3.9.4
tcsh	contrib/tcsh	BSD	6.17.0	6.17.0	6.17.0	6.15.0	6.15.0	MarkPeek
texinfo	contrib/texinfo	GPLv3	4.13a (GPLv2 4.8a)	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.8
top	contrib/top	BSDish	3.8beta1	3.5beta12	3.5beta12	3.5beta12	3.5beta12	EdwinGroothuis
tzcode	lib/libc/stdtime usr.sbin/zic	Public Domain	2009q	2009q	2009k	2004	2004	EdwinGroothuis
yacc	usr.bin/yacc	BSD	20091027	ancient	ancient	ancient	ancient
hostapd wpa_supplicant	contrib/wpa	BSD or GPLv2	0.6.9	0.6.8	0.6.8	0.5.8	0.4.8	SamLeffler
zoneinfo	share/zoneinfo	Public Domain	2009q	2009q	2009q	2009q	2009q	EdwinGroothuis
Name	CVSWeb	License	Vendor	HEAD	RELENG_8	RELENG_7	RELENG_6	Contact

Software with ceased (?) upstream development

Name	CVSWeb	License	Vendor	HEAD	RELENG_8	RELENG_7	RELENG_6	Contact
bc	contrib/bc	GPLv2 or later	1.06	1.06	1.06	1.06	1.06
bsnmp	contrib/bsnmp	BSD	1.12	1.12	1.12	1.12	1.12	HartmutBrandt
csup	contrib/csup	BSD	20060313	20060313	20060313	20060313	20060313	UlfLilleengen
libbegemot	contrib/libbegemot	BSD	1.11					HartmutBrandt
ngatm	contrib/ngatm	BSD
nvi	contrib/nvi	BSD	1.79	1.79	1.79	1.79	1.79	PeterWemm
opie	contrib/opie	NRL (BSDish)		2.4	2.4	2.4	2.4
pnpinfo	contrib/pnpinfo	BSDish
smbfs	contrib/smbfs	BSD		1.4.5	1.4.5	1.4.5	1.4.5	BorisPopov
tcp_wrappers	contrib/tcp_wrappers	BSD	7.6	7.6	7.6	7.6	7.6
telnet	contrib/telnet	BSD
traceroute	contrib/traceroute	BSD	1.4a12	1.4a12	1.4a12	1.4a12	1.4a12

Notes on software with ceased upstream development

csup: isn't contributed software anymore. All development takes place in the FreeBSD svn repo. Should probably be moved away from contrib/.
opie: website is unreachable for the better part of 2009
telnet: no new version has been imported in 8+ years. Maybe move to usr.bin/telnet as all "development", which is mainly security fixes, takes place in the FreeBSD svn repo.

pf (from OpenBSD)

Needs to be in sync with kernel
Vendor usually breaks ABI/API between versions
Newer versions (>3.9) depend on huge routing infrastructure changes

name	OpenBSD cvsweb
authpf	authpf
ftp-proxy	ftp-proxy
libevent	libevent
man
pfctl	pfctl
pflogd	pflogd
tftp-proxy