I will try to port some userland applications very soon and see where it goes. Given HelenOS has BSD license, i guess it's preferred to port userland application from either NetBSD/FreeBSD or any other BSD flavor. Which one does HelenOS community prefer ?
Well, first of all you have to ask yourself the question what should be the motivation and benefits of porting any particular application from any other system to HelenOS (compared to writing a HelenOS-specific implementation from scratch). I mean, we don't see any point in porting the whole *BSD user space to HelenOS as the MINIX team does. HelenOS does not strive to be yet another UNIX reimplementation.
Porting some specific applications might indeed be useful, but in many cases implementing HelenOS-specific variants from scratch might be a better idea. It should be really decided on case to case basis.
Note that the BSD license is not a strict requirement. Each application is a separate component, thus there is no problem with having applications covered with different open source licenses (GPL, LGPL, etc.) and being ported from non-BSD systems (again, if there is a good reason to port the application in the first place).
I am just curious if there is any future plan of switching to Git as SCM ?
No, there is absolutely no reason for switching to Git. We are using Bazaar which is a distributed version control system perfectly on a par with Git.
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