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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:32:28 -0400
From: Nathan Lay <nslay@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: viral license free fork of freebsd
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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?
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I think all the BSDs are pushing to remove GPL utilities from the base 
system but it takes time to do that.  It may even surprise you that 
NetBSD and OpenBSD are trying to replace gcc with pcc (BSDL C 
compiler).  Anyways, why not write or improve BSDL equivalent utilities 
to replace their GPL counterparts rather than creating a fork?

Best Regards,
Nathan Lay