From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 27 10:41:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts16.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B1237B41E for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:41:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([199.243.128.121]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020227184116.ZTMN25386.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:41:16 -0500 Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (xena.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.3]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g1RITji46146; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:29:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:29:44 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Mike Meyer Cc: Terry Lambert , Michael Lucas , Patrik Sundberg , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: valgrind In-Reply-To: <15485.8842.438366.492284@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Mike Meyer wrote: > [Moved to -chat from -current *and* -stable. Bleah.] > > Terry Lambert types: > > This is why FreeBSD lets people use GPL'ed components as an > > "after market" item, but does not distribute them: it is in > > the ditribution that the clause activates. > > I could *swear* that I got gcc with my distribution of FreeBSD. Or > does this statement only apply to kernel components? Since gcc is self-contained, it's no a problem. It's when you've got a statically-linked image (an application or a kernel image) that contains both BSD and GPL code that the problems arise. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message