From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 4 13:59: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638BD42E3 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 13:58:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ds.net (i1p92.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.92]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA18675; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:58:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <389B4B84.4ED61DBC@ds.net> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 16:58:28 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU components of BSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > I just realized something.... > If the FreeBSD distro includes GNU components, how can someone > repackage and resell FreeBSD like the BSD license allows? I'm talking > of course about the more liberal distribution allowed by BSD, such as > binary only, or after modifications where source is not distributed. > I could be wrong, but I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say that FreeBSD does not require any GNU components to actually run. As far as I know - gcc is the only GNU component that's really needed to run FreeBSD (For kernel compiles). Am I wrong? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message