From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 5 05:23:33 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5BC516A417 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 05:23:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA8913C468 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 05:23:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from localhost (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C0EEB3616; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:23:32 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([210.51.165.229]) by localhost (mail.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8X0CYRrPTKEu; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:23:27 +0800 (CST) Received: from LI-Xins-MacBook.local (c-67-161-39-180.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.161.39.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B948EB2FFA; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:23:26 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent: mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to: x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type; b=CnVrxvnZk+CLKZW1+wimJ86PnXZ4PkeGSKy9yewCbXQ5o5rPKR+rEY8PieTN3hmt1 oaBxoOGmKtmmdYwFVYliQ== Message-ID: <4705CA47.9090101@delphij.net> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:23:19 -0700 From: LI Xin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aryeh Friedman References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 OpenPGP: url=http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig00192999F234A57CF67472F5" Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: viral license free fork of freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d@delphij.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:23:33 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig00192999F234A57CF67472F5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I am intrested in putting together a version of FreeBSD (at least the > non-ports portion) that is 100% viral license (gpl and lgpl [not > techinically viral but I don't trust it]) free... where would be a > good starting point on this project? Set MK_GNU =3D no, and MK_GNU_SUPPORT =3D no? Well, if you want a moderate amount of work you may want to try replacing sort(1) with the old BSD one, and optimize it. Also some *roff stuff, etc. If you are really energyic then you will want to join a project like llvm or so for a better compiler. My opinion is that, while licensing issue is important, but there are a lot of other factors that must be taken into account. If a new piece of software has better code quality, better performance, etc., then it would be a big bonus over "just with a license we liked" :-) Optimizing libc/regex might be a good start if you want to go this way. Cheers, --=20 Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! --------------enig00192999F234A57CF67472F5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHBcpHOfuToMruuMARCjU7AJ92gtRs/qlIJAFNFlaaESoLvYX7gwCfSWQA IZauCeyplPGxYKrrHK/xjdQ= =XWRL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig00192999F234A57CF67472F5--