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From: "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: viral license free fork of freebsd
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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.