Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:46:07 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: d@delphij.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Subject: Re: viral license free fork of freebsd Message-ID: <20071005214506.X88717@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <4705CA47.9090101@delphij.net> References: <bef9a7920710042203r33e4c23axf3629e1e6f30a042@mail.gmail.com> <4705CA47.9090101@delphij.net>
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, LI Xin 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? > > Set MK_GNU = no, and MK_GNU_SUPPORT = no? > > Well, if you want a moderate amount of work you may want to try replacing > sort(1) with the old BSD one, and optimize it. Also some *roff stuff, etc. > If you are really energyic then you will want to join a project like llvm or > so for a better compiler. > > My opinion is that, while licensing issue is important, but there are a lot > of other factors that must be taken into account. If a new piece of > software has better code quality, better performance, etc., then it would be > a big bonus over "just with a license we liked" :-) Optimizing libc/regex > might be a good start if you want to go this way. It's not clear this is comprehensive, but it may still be useful in discussing replacing GPL'd components with non-GPL'd ones: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ContribSoftware Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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