From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 11 00:46:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA03849 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 00:46:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA03825 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 00:46:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA00303; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 03:45:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199801110845.DAA00303@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Book Request In-Reply-To: <11761.884504663@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 10, 98 11:44:23 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 03:45:48 -0500 (EST) Cc: grog@lemis.com, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, jamie@itribe.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > > Funny you should mention that, since it was also our conclusion at the > > > recent FreeBSD-sf meeting. Some folks went away to look into adapting > > > the HowTo's for FreeBSD, no status on that yet tho. > > > > Great. Was nobody too worried about the GPL? > > If we can deal with this for our compiler, I think we can deal with > this for a section of our docs. ;) > There should be no problem with "oddly" licensed tools. It is the runtime that needs to be maintained to be unencumbered, and (IMO) the documentation is one of those things where GPL is less undesirable than in the runtime areas. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.