From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 23:09:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F351065685 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 23:09:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD0138FC08 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 23:09:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m74N9YSl043182 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:09:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:09:18 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080804230918.GA12219@thought.org> References: <18736784.post@talk.nabble.com> <48909534.9040608@FreeBSD.org> <48971F22.3000601@carebears.mine.nu> <48975C9B.9040103@FreeBSD.org> <20080804165237.39f79c49@scorpio> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080804165237.39f79c49@scorpio> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Subject: Re: When gcc43 is expected to be in base? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:09:23 -0000 On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 04:52:37PM -0400, Gerard wrote: > On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:46:35 +0200 > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >> Isn't possible to add GPLv3 code in the base system? > >> (By possible I mean the license part, not the technical part;) > >> > > > >There is a strong preference not to do this. > > Doing a totally unscientific investigation reveals that the trend seems > to be towards the use of GPLv3 license. As a 'claws-mail' user myself, > I know that, that caused a problem with the 'ClamAV' plug-in that was > formerly used by 'claws-mail' > > Since it appears to be apparent that newer software might very well be > released under the GPLv3 license, it might behoove the FreeBSD team to > rethink its ideas or beliefs regarding the inclusion of such software > into the base system. At the very least, it might very well make life > easier for end users who need the support that programs using that > license are now offering. I must have missed something along the way, because I don't understand what the "preferences" are to *not* use 4.3. I have it buiilt and runing here on my mail desktop and at least one other FBSD server. Clues, please. gary > > Then again, I could be wrong. Just my 2¢. > > -- > Gerard > gerard@seibercom.net > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org