Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:45:19 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not GNU cmp? Message-ID: <20080925194519.GA5438@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <35f70db10809250450o20a21e82kcef4c72ca58267b4@mail.gmail.com> References: <935484.39759.qm@web57008.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <48DB3F1A.5060005@FreeBSD.org> <20080925084825.GA2728@kokopelli.hydra> <35f70db10809250450o20a21e82kcef4c72ca58267b4@mail.gmail.com>
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--vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 01:50:13PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: >=20 > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:34:50AM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > You are asking the wrong questions: why did GNU write their own versi= on > > > of cmp? FreeBSD's dates to 1987. > > > > Y'know -- that's a really good question. > > >=20 > Not really its quite simple,... much like the *BSD camp prefers all their > tools to be BSD licensed, the GNU camp want all their tools to be GPL > licensed. > They have their reason's for wanting to enforce the sharing of code > improvements. You don't have to rewrite something BSD-licensed to distribute it under the GPL, though. Just wrap it in a larger package with a GPL license over the whole thing, and contribute development effort to the BSD licensed code if you want it to improve. That would have been a win for everyone, as far as I can tell -- rather than trying to enforce sharing code improvements by rewriting something from scratch and distributing it under a license that prevents its code from being shared with the BSD licensed version. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Rudy Giuliani: "You have free speech so I can be heard." --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkjb6k8ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVajQCfeLPDu+JCYq3XOVyQcLV6iyRD +AIAoJ5m94QuG1x6hPZE97JpfIhL0dD/ =RcLa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd--
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