From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 19 13:50:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17963 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:50:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from yonge.cs.toronto.edu (yonge.cs.toronto.edu [128.100.1.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA17953 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dholland@cs.toronto.edu) Received: from qew.cs.toronto.edu ([128.100.1.13]) by yonge.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <86534-3183>; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:50:14 -0400 Received: by qew.cs.toronto.edu id <37814-9002>; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:44:37 -0400 Subject: Re: Producing non-GPLed tools for FreeBSD From: David Holland To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:44:33 -0400 Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981019000937.06571220@mail.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Oct 19, 98 02:23:11 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <98Oct19.164437edt.37814-9002@qew.cs.toronto.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [gpl toolchain] There are a lot of people in various places interested in building a replacement toolchain. At least some of the ones I know of would be amenable to a non-GPL effort. How serious are you about this? BTW, the gnu binutils source is horribly disgusting and you couldn't possibly learn anything by looking at it. :-/ -- - David A. Holland | (please continue to send non-list mail to dholland@cs.utoronto.ca | dholland@hcs.harvard.edu. yes, I moved.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message