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Date:      Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:59:25 +0000
From:      "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        "Nathan Lay" <nslay@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: viral license free fork of freebsd
Message-ID:  <bef9a7920710050559g3bc4d51bx4e9fd5a28904e4e7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47062EDC.7090402@comcast.net>
References:  <bef9a7920710042203r33e4c23axf3629e1e6f30a042@mail.gmail.com> <47062EDC.7090402@comcast.net>

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On 10/5/07, Nathan Lay <nslay@comcast.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?
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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?

The fork is due to other project goals that have nothing to do with
the starting OS.



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