Date: 24 Nov 1999 21:21:21 +0200 From: Vadim Belman <voland@plab.ku.dk> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BSD based Debian... Message-ID: <85ln7nn1am.fsf@lflat.dp.ua>
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For those who don't read Slashdot this quote from the official
Debian Web site. No comments...
I especially wonder *how* are they gonna to cooperate with FreeBSD
community? Or will they develop their own kernel branch? I mean it
doesn't seem possible to have normal relations when one say such
things...
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Debian with the FreeBSD kernel was the subject of a heated week-long
discussion. It seems that since this idea was first conceived in February,
a few people have been working on the port. The status of their work can be
read about here. Basically, they are using the FreeBSD kernel and libc, and
recompiling Debian packages to work on that system. Reactions varied. John
Goerzen worries that a version of Debian based on a BSD copyrighted kernel
would open the door to third parties taking our work and making it
proprietary, and also that "we are essentially giving first aid to software
that is dying (and rightfully so) because of its license". Many others
disagree with him and have no problems with the BSD license. Others wonder
if it wouldn't be technically better, and easier in the long run, to port
glibc to FreeBSD, and allow Debian packages to be used unchanged with that
kernel and library combination.
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/Voland Vadim Belman
E-mail: voland@plab.ku.dk
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