From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 19:53:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF2E1065695 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:53:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-15.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-15.bluehost.com [69.89.18.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF7F78FC19 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:53:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 29094 invoked by uid 0); 25 Sep 2008 19:53:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 25 Sep 2008 19:53:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=LER3f2c+lXBmvKNFGIh8o0Z6ntRWoS0dNS9vD5YXJ0GP7Dvol1bcsltDVVN6wykim5uB123/C1oTkCLaNfUhHjnCBJwTEWakuDuqAlaz0XtOwEoxj7zllR91k8JODVG2; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kiwti-0005Ao-15 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:53:10 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:45:19 -0600 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:45:19 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080925194519.GA5438@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <935484.39759.qm@web57008.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <48DB3F1A.5060005@FreeBSD.org> <20080925084825.GA2728@kokopelli.hydra> <35f70db10809250450o20a21e82kcef4c72ca58267b4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <35f70db10809250450o20a21e82kcef4c72ca58267b4@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Why not GNU cmp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:53:12 -0000 --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 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--