From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 02:18:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC9916A4CE for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 02:18:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-46-91.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF56E43D41 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 02:18:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 013154624F; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:18:15 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D8A46213; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:18:15 -0400 (AST) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:18:15 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Jorge Mario G." In-Reply-To: <20041218015853.11444.qmail@web50303.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20041217221713.G1045@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20041218015853.11444.qmail@web50303.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-1611122974-1103336295=:1045" cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: eliminating GPL apps on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 02:18:16 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-1611122974-1103336295=:1045 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE For example ... ? Is there a list of apps being maintained, and, maybe,=20 reasons why they haven't been adopted? I recall this conversation happening before, over ... grep? ... and there= =20 were alot of things missing from it that the GNU version had, which was=20 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!? > Informaci=F3n de Estados Unidos y Am=E9rica Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. > Vis=EDtanos 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: 7615664 --0-1611122974-1103336295=:1045--