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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Unzip for package tools (was re: FBSD 2.1)
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:52:46 +0000 ()
Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, Hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199601290548.QAA09561@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 29, 96 04:18:02 pm
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> Nate Williams stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > Obviously, this breaks down for things development tools (gcc and
> > friends) and other parts of the system, but those aren't necessary to
> > build a running system for the most part.  (Actually, ld.so is both
> > GPL'd and necessary which is too bad unless you want to build a static
> > only system).
> 
> Not to be rude, but I can't see the "problem scenario" being at all 
> realistic.  We have a vendor who will take FreeBSD, remove the networking
> support, remove the C compiler from their distribution, rebuild everything
> static, hunt down and dike out everything else even vaguely GPLish, and
> not rework their installation tools?
> 
At work, where we might end up deploying FreeBSD based boxen, if it is
an application where it is embedded, and source is not easily redistributed,
we will remove EVERY LAST BIT OF ENCUMBERED CODE.  The company that I work
for has deep pockets, and is very sensitive to such issues.

If there was NO GPL encumbered code in the system, it would make our life
easier, but we have a step to deal with in the development process
because of GPL encumberance :-(.

John Dyson
dyson@freebsd.org