Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 06:17:54 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de> Cc: bf2006a@yahoo.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, giffunip@tutopia.com Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?) Message-ID: <C1E35D3D-9CFF-4E60-A3E4-F89F69860F6D@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49859187.2030407@smo.de> References: <763068.66528.qm@web39104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <49859187.2030407@smo.de>
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On Feb 1, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Philipp Ost wrote: > bf wrote: >>>> The issue is a lot of open source applications that it can run are >>>> GPL licensed. I know there was an effort to replace the core OS >>>> apps >>>> that were GPL with 100% BSD licensed equivalents. >>> The effort didn't go far enough. Why haven't we removed GNU >>> readline ? >>> Pedro. >> I think you know very well why we haven't removed that, and other >> pieces of software with the GPL from the tree: no one has written and >> submitted suitable replacements with more permissive licenses. [...] > > What about the editline library <http://thrysoee.dk/editline/>? > I have to admit I don't know how well it works, but I haven't used > readline either... > > Philipp Same thing as NetBSD's libedit, just rehashed with GNU makefiles and other Linuxy patches. -Garrett
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