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

Up to date as of r228409, 2011-12-11

Kernel

Name

CVSWeb

License

Vendor

head

stable/9

stable/8

stable/7

Contact

acpica

sys/contrib/dev/acpica

"Intel", BSDish or GPLv2

20120111

20120111

20110527

20101013

20070320

JungukKim

dtrace

cddl

CDDL

?

?

?

?

?

RuiPaulo

ipfilter

contrib/ipfilter

BSD for userspace; restricted BSD for kernel (?)

5.1.0

4.1.28

4.1.28

4.1.28

4.1.28

DarrenReed

libfdt

sys/contrib/libfdt

BSD

1.3.0

1.2.0

1.2.0

-

-

RafalJaworowski

octeon-sdk

contrib/octeon-sdk

BSDish

2.0.0

2.0.0

2.0.0

-

-

JuliMallett

opensolaris

cddl/contrib/opensolaris

CDDL

?

7837

7837

7837

7837

PawelJakubDawidek, MartinMatuska, RuiPaulo

pf

contrib/pf

BSD

5.0

4.5

4.5

4.1

4.1

MaxLaier

x86emu

contrib/x86emu

MIT / X

5.0

4.7

4.7

4.6

-

XinLi

xz-embedded

contrib/xz-embedded

Public Domain

2011-09-19

2011-09-19

-

-

-

AdrianChadd

zfs

cddl

CDDL

n/a

v28

v28

v28

v13

PawelJakubDawidek, MartinMatuska

Drivers, Firmware

Driver

CVSWeb

License

Vendor

head

stable/9

stable/8

stable/7

Contact

arcmsr(4)

arcmsr

?

?

1.20.00.22

1.20.00.22

1.20.00.22

1.20.00.19

XinLi

cxgb(4)

cxgb

?

?

7.11.0

7.11.0

7.11.0

7.11.0

NavdeepParhar

cxgbe(4)

cxgbe

?

?

1.4.16

1.3.8

1.3.8

?

NavdeepParhar

em(4) / igb(4)

e1000

BSD

?

7.3.2

7.2.2

?

?

JackVogel

hpt27xx(4)

hpt27xx

?

?

1.0

-

-

-

XinLi

ispfw(4)

ispfw

?

?

3.03.26

3.03.26

3.03.19

?

MatthewJacob

iwn(4)

iwn

?

?

?

?

?

?

BernhardSchmidt

ixgbe(4)

ixgbe

BSD

?

2.3.8

2.3.8

?

?

JackVogel

mxge(4)

mxge

?

?

1.4.53a

1.4.53a

1.4.53a

1.4.53a

AndrewGallatin

qlxgb(4)

qlxgb

?

?

1.30

1.30

-

-

BjoernZeeb

twa(4)

twa

?

?

3.80.06.003

3.80.06.003

3.80.06.003

3.80.06.003

XinLi

tws(4)

tws

?

?

10.80.00.003

10.80.00.003

10.80.00.003

-

XinLi

virtio(4)

virtio

?

?

c162516

-

-

-

PeterGrehan

many more ...

Userland

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

Name

CVSWeb

License

Vendor

head

stable/9

stable/8

stable/7

Contact

amd

contrib/amd

BSD

6.1.5

6.1.5

6.1.5

6.1.5

6.0.10p1

DavidOBrien

awk

contrib/one-true-awk

BSD

20110810

20110810

20110810

20110810

20070501

RuslanErmilov

bind9

contrib/bind9

BSD

9.8.1-P1

9.8.1-P1

9.8.1-P1

9.6-ESV-R5-P1

9.4-ESV-R5

DougBarton

bzip2

contrib/bzip2

BSD

1.0.6

1.0.6

1.0.6

1.0.5

1.0.4

DavidOBrien, XinLi

clang llvm

contrib/llvm

UoI/NCSA

3.0

r145349

r145349

-

-

EdSchouten, RomanDivacky, DimitryAndric

cvs

contrib/cvs

GPLv2

1.11.23

1.11.22.1

1.11.22.1

1.11.22.1

1.11.22.1

PeterWemm

compiler_rt

contrib/compiler-rt

UoI/NCSA or MIT

n/a

r147390

r132478

-

-

EdSchouten

dialog

contrib/dialog

LGPLv2.1

1.1-20111020

1.1-20110707

1.1-20110707

-

-

NathanWhitehorn

dtc

contrib/dtc

GPLv2

1.3.0

1.2.0

1.2.0

-

-

RafalJaworowski

dtruss

contrib/dtracetoolkit

CDDL

06-Aug-2007

06-Aug-2007

06-Aug-2007

-

-

RuiPaulo

ee

contrib/ee

BSD

1.5.2

1.5.2

1.5.2

1.5.2

1.4.2

EdSchouten

expat

contrib/expat

MIT / X

2.0.1

2.0.1

2.0.1

2.0.1

1.95.5

ColemanKane

file

contrib/file

BSD

5.07

5.03

5.03

5.03

4.21

DavidOBrien

gdtoa

contrib/gdtoa

BSD

20110304

20110304

20110304

20081205

?

DavidSchultz

heimdal / com_err

crypto/heimdal contrib/com_err

BSD

1.5.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

0.6.1

less

contrib/less

BSD or GPLv3

444

444

444

444

444

XinLi

libarchive

lib/libarchive usr.bin/cpio usr.bin/tar

BSD

2.8.5

2.8.5

2.8.4

2.8.4

2.4.12

TimKientzle, MartinMatuska

libcxxrt

contrib/libc++ / contrib/libcxxrt

BSD

?

2011-11-25

-

-

-

DavidChisnall

libedit

lib/libedit

BSD

?

2010-08-04

2010-08-04

?

?

DavidOBrien

libpcap

contrib/libpcap

BSD

1.1.1

1.1.1

1.1.1

1.0.0

0.9.8

lukemftpd

contrib/lukemftpd

BSD

20100324

20051124

20051124

20051124

2002????

DavidOBrien

Name

CVSWeb

License

Vendor

head

stable/9

stable/8

stable/7

Contact

makefs

usr.sbin/makefs

BSD

2011??

2011??

2011??

?

?

ncurses

contrib/ncurses

MIT-like

5.9-20110404

5.7-20081102

5.7-20081102

5.7-20081102

5.6-20080503

netcat

contrib/netcat

BSD

5.0

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.8

XinLi

ntp

contrib/ntp

BSDish

4.2.6

4.2.4p8

4.2.4p8

4.2.4p5

4.2.4p5

OllivierRobert

ofed

contrib/ofed

BSD or GPLv2

1.6

1.5.3

1.5.3

-

-

JeffRoberson

openbsm

contrib/openbsm

BSD

1.1p2

1.1p2

1.1p2

1.1p2

1.0

RobertWatson

openpam

contrib/openpam

BSD

20111218 (Lycopsida)

20111218

20071221

20071221

20071221

DagErlingSmørgrav

openresolv

contrib/openresolv

BSD

3.4.4

3.4.4

3.4.4

-

-

HajimuUmemoto

openssh

crypto/openssh

BSD

5.9p1

5.9p1

5.8p2

5.4p1

5.1p1

DagErlingSmørgrav

openssl

crypto/openssl

BSDish

1.0.0d

0.9.8q

0.9.8q

0.9.8q

0.9.8q

SimonNielsen

pam_passwdqc

contrib/pam_modules/pam_passwdqc

BSDish

1.0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

DagErlingSmørgrav

pciids

pci_vendors

BSD or GPLv2

?

20110716

20110716

-

-

PhilipPaeps

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)

8.14.5

8.14.5

8.14.5

8.14.5

8.14.5

GregoryShapiro

tcpdump

contrib/tcpdump

BSD

4.1.1

4.0.0

4.0.0

4.0.0

3.9.8

tcsh

contrib/tcsh

BSD

6.17.0

6.17.0

6.17.0

6.17.0

6.17.0

MarkPeek

tnftp

contrib/tnftp

BSD

20100605

20100108

20100108

20050516

20050516

GavinAtkinson

top

contrib/top

BSDish

3.8beta1

3.5beta12

3.5beta12

3.5beta12

3.5beta12

EdwinGroothuis

tzcode

contrib/tzcode

Public Domain

2010n

2010m

2010m

2009t

2009t

EdwinGroothuis

tzdata

contrib/tzdata

Public Domain

2011n

2011n

2011n

2011n

2011n

EdwinGroothuis

hostapd wpa_supplicant

contrib/wpa

BSD or GPLv2

0.7.3

0.7.3

0.7.3

0.6.8

0.5.8

SamLeffler

xz

contrib/xz

Public Domain (relevant parts)

5.0.3

5.0.3+

5.0.3+

5.0.1

-

MartinMatuska

zlib

lib/libz

zlib (BSDish)

1.2.5

1.2.5

1.2.5

1.2.3

1.2.3

XinLi

Name

CVSWeb

License

Vendor

head

stable/9

stable/8

stable/7

Contact

Userland tools that switched to GPLv3

These are unlikely to ever get updated in FreeBSD, and plans are being developed to migrate to other tools. See GPLinBase for details.

Name

CVSWeb

License

Vendor

Last GPLv2

head

stable/9

stable/8

stable/7

Contact

binutils

contrib/binutils

GPLv3

2.21

2.17.50

2.17.50

2.17.50

2.15

2.15

DimitryAndric

cpio

contrib/cpio

GPLv3

2.11

2.8

-

-

-

2.8

diff

contrib/diff

GPLv3

3.0

2.8.7

2.8.7

2.8.7

2.8.7

2.8.7

XinLi

gcc

contrib/gcc

GPLv3

4.5.2

4.2.1

4.2.1

4.2.1

4.2.1

4.2.1

AlexanderKabaev, GeraldPfeifer

gdb

contrib/gdb

GPLv3

7.2

6.6

6.1.1

6.1.1

6.1.1

6.1.1

DavidOBrien

gnu-sort

contrib/gnu-sort

GPLv3

8.10

6.9

5.3.0

5.3.0

5.3.0

5.3.0

gperf

contrib/gperf

GPLv3

3.0.4

3.0.3

3.0.3

2.7.2

2.7.2

2.7.2

grep

gnu/usr.bin/grep

GPLv3

2.9

2.5.2

2.5.1

2.5.1

2.5.1

2.5.1

groff

contrib/groff

GPLv3

1.21

1.19.2

1.19.2

1.19.2

1.19.2

1.19.2

RuslanErmilov

libf2c

contrib/libf2c

LGPLv3

4.5.2

4.2.4

-

-

-

3.4.6

libobjc

contrib/libobjc

LGPLv3

4.5.2

4.2.4

-

-

4.2.1

4.2.1

libreadline

contrib/libreadline

GPLv3

6.2

5.2

5.2.002

5.2.002

5.2.002

5.2.002

AndreyChernov

libstdc++

contrib/libstdc++

LGPLv3

4.5.2

4.2.4

4.2.4

4.2.4

4.2.1

4.2.1

texinfo

contrib/texinfo

GPLv3

4.13a

4.8a

4.8

4.8

4.8

4.8

Software also available someplace else

These tools have been picked up by someone else, or are also available at a different location. They evolved from *BSD though, and we might want to cherry-pick changes and bring them into our tree.

CVSWeb

License

head

stable/9

stable/8

stable/7

Where

Other version

usr.bin/lex

BSD

2.5.4

2.5.4

2.5.4

2.5.4

http://flex.sourceforge.net/

2.5.35

usr.bin/unifdef

BSD

2.5.6

2.5.6

2.5.6

?

http://dotat.at/prog/unifdef/

2.6

usr.bin/yacc

BSD

1993

1993

1993

1993

http://invisible-island.net/byacc/byacc.html

20100610

Software with ceased (?) upstream development

Name

CVSWeb

License

Vendor

head

stable/9

stable/8

stable/7

Contact

bc

contrib/bc

GPLv2 or later

1.06

-

-

1.06

1.06

bsnmp

contrib/bsnmp

BSD

1.12

1.12

1.12

1.12

1.12

HartmutBrandt

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)

2.4.1-test1

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

SoftFloat

lib/libc/softfloat

BSDish

2b

2a

2a

2a

2a

SUN Freely Distributable LIBM (FDLIBM)

lib/msun

BSDish

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

5.3

tcp_wrappers

contrib/tcp_wrappers

BSD

7.6

7.6

7.6

7.6

7.6

telnet

contrib/telnet

BSD

95-10-23

95-10-23

95-10-23

95-10-23

95-10-23

traceroute

contrib/traceroute

BSD

1.4a12

1.4a12

1.4a12

1.4a12

1.4a12

Notes on software with ceased upstream development


pf (from OpenBSD)

name

OpenBSD cvsweb

authpf

authpf

ftp-proxy

ftp-proxy

libevent

libevent

man

pfctl

pfctl

pflogd

pflogd

tftp-proxy

ContribSoftware (last edited 2012-01-11 23:13:31 by JungukKim)