Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:18:15 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Jorge Mario G." <murcielako@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: eliminating GPL apps on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20041217221713.G1045@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20041218015853.11444.qmail@web50303.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041218015853.11444.qmail@web50303.mail.yahoo.com>
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For example ... ? Is there a list of apps being maintained, and, maybe, reasons why they haven't been adopted? I recall this conversation happening before, over ... grep? ... and there were alot of things missing from it that the GNU version had, which was why it wasn't considered suitable yet to be adopted ... On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Jorge Mario G. wrote: > Hi guys > well just a ramdom thought > latelaly a lot of GPLed apps have been re-written to > BSD equivalents. > (Free/Net/Open)BSD have all worked on this, but there > seems to be no cooperation among us (them) > it would be nice if we could integrate all the > re-written parts, or at least the FreeBSD project > could do it. so that way we would reduce the GPL code > in the system > shouldnt be there an iniciative to do this? > > P.S.: I'm doing what I can to make this happen > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. > Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664help
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