From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 5 08:43:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA25967 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 08:43:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA25936 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 08:43:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13295; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 08:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: WHS cc: tech@openbsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GGI In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 15:42:02 +0200." <3618CCAA.75189840@cistron.nl> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 08:38:19 -0700 Message-ID: <13291.907601899@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It's now up to you all: is there any interest in using GGI given the > current license situation? This would probably be a fine time to get into Yet Another License battle except for the fact that I am personally sick of license battles right now and restrict myself to caring about stuff which is actually on the critical path, like important device drivers or the compiler toolchain, leaving the license issues for less critical items to be debated by those with the time and inclination to argue about licensing until old age sets in (and probably well past that point). In the specific case of GGI, I certainly don't care either way. If there are GPL'd kernel bits, then we just make them available as optional add-ons like ext2fs and the other bits in /usr/src/sys/gnu. If someone wants to do a binary-only kernel release, they leave out /usr/src/{.,*/}gnu as always and life goes on. Hardly something worth self-combusting over, and not a feature we've gotten a lot of requests for in any case, so from the purely "user request drive" standpoint it's also not anywhere on my short-range map. To summarize: Have the authors do as they like with the GGI license. It's not a gating factor (here) in the acceptance of the software. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message