From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 13:44:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D372937B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:44:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com (gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com [196.7.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4E443F93 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:44:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) Received: (qmail 59755 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Jun 2003 20:45:26 -0000 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:45:26 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-ID: <20030626204526.GA58347@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030625214311.00e5e240@localhost> <20030626010357.J508@hub.org> <20030626110336.GW34365@iconoplex.co.uk> <20030626172910.N98477@hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030626172910.N98477@hub.org> Organization: Independent Online X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:44:06 -0000 On Thu 2003-06-26 (17:32), Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > less - re-implementable quite quickly > > > > You might be surprised... > > ... but any reason why its part of hte main system instead of just put > into ports? I hate to get involved, but less isn't only GPL - it's distributable under an entirely BSD-like license too. This program is free software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: 1. The GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license is in the file COPYING. or 2. The Less License, in the file LICENSE. LICENSE says: Less Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Mark Nudelman Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org