Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 05:42:07 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: d@delphij.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: viral license free fork of freebsd Message-ID: <bef9a7920710042242l10a101dcm18422bad9832c2f6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4705CA47.9090101@delphij.net> References: <bef9a7920710042203r33e4c23axf3629e1e6f30a042@mail.gmail.com> <4705CA47.9090101@delphij.net>
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On 10/5/07, LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> wrote: > 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 = no, and > MK_GNU_SUPPORT = no? Will that remove all gnu code? > > 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. I will look at what else needs to be done. > > 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. I have other reasons and goals then "I don't like the license" specifically if I was going to start building an os under a SIW license (http://www.flosoft-systems.com/miai/index.php and http://www.flosoft-systems.com/blogs/aryeh/index.php [first three enteries]) GPL is not compatible with this approach. The main idea behind SIW is to make FOSS-like work easier to make a living from. See url's for details.
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