From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 06:27:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B4A16A4CE for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 06:27:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8632B43D49 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 06:27:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1CfY45-00024q-00; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:27:41 -0800 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:27:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: "Jorge Mario G." In-Reply-To: <20041218015853.11444.qmail@web50303.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: eliminating GPL apps on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 06:27:53 -0000 On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Jorge Mario G. wrote: > it would be nice if we could integrate all the > re-written parts, or at least the FreeBSD project > could do it. so that way we would reduce the GPL code > in the system > shouldnt be there an iniciative to do this? > > P.S.: I'm doing what I can to make this happen Make a up-to-date list of what software is needed and how well it is working. I'll start your list: bc/dc -- I hear that OpenBSD is working on this, but also a NetBSD developer (who also wrote a lot or maintained the GNU equivalents) has BSD-licensed versions too. {g,n,t}roff -- I think I heard that someone is using an old BSD licensed version dating back to early 1990's and before. I have used cawf (for almost a year) with some custom macros, but it needs a lot of work. cc and c++ -- two tendra projects; seems like they should join back together? as (assembler) and ld (linker) gcc related libraries sendmail replacement -- my outbound mailout has been in use for a few years, but needs a lot of work. binutils gdb gprof? rcs? Some things already done (but not necessarily used yet): cpio, diff?, patch?, grep, gzip, sort, tar, dialog, gettext, bc/dc. Jeremy C. Reed open source, Unix, *BSD, Linux training http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/