Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:27:07 -0600 From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: Shantanoo <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net>, Scott W <wegster@mindcore.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial Distribution? Message-ID: <40620000.1073489227@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net> In-Reply-To: <20040107134537.GA415@dhumketu.homeunix.net> References: <3FFB7F8F.3010101@mindcore.net> <20040107134537.GA415@dhumketu.homeunix.net>
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--==========FF484A46243B8817898E========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Wednesday, January 07, 2004 19:15:37 +0530 Shantanoo=20 <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net> wrote: > +++ Scott W [freebsd] [06-01-04 22:39 -0500]: >| I know this one may be seen as sacrilege to some, but think about this: >| >| 1. *BSD uses a fairly significant amount of GNU and GPL licensed >| (opposed to the BSD license) code in it. gcc, Perl, XFree86, Apache, >| GNU Make, autoconf, mysql, PostgreSQL, etc etc. While it can be argued >| many/most of these are not part of the core OS, what about: gcc, >| objective c, libreadline, cvs, diff, tar, sort, patch and friends? >| (from /usr/src/gnu and /usr/src/usr.bin ) > > I think PostgreSQL is released under BSD license. It *IS* under the BSD license, and that won't change :-) (It's an RWAR every time it's mentioned to put it GPL). (I spend a lot of time on the PostgreSQL lists.). --=20 Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 --==========FF484A46243B8817898E========== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE//CVLrRNGhTxJvdYRAl8UAJ9eFhmbAt6mE3zZi/FhoKv7XK4ctQCfbkmd hhiqUM7bdB41QPyl2eLTVws= =E7By -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==========FF484A46243B8817898E==========--
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