Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 16:58:28 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU components of BSD Message-ID: <389B4B84.4ED61DBC@ds.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002042129260.20319-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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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
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