Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:08:53 +0200 From: Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl> To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" Message-ID: <20030630080853.GB42783@dragon.stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030630080252.GK57378@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <3EFBFEBD.B8772772@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030625214311.00e5e240@localhost> <20030626110336.GW34365@iconoplex.co.uk> <20030626113553.GA53078@packet.org.uk> <20030626122023.GB763@nitro.dk> <20030626124601.GB57378@iconoplex.co.uk> <3EFBFEBD.B8772772@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030627133739.035722d0@localhost> <20030628052710.GK29066@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030630080252.GK57378@iconoplex.co.uk>
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Paul Robinson wrote: > There are at most half a dozen apps that require the retention of the > current GPL implementation. The rest can either be rm'ed (nobody uses them), > replaced with BSD licensed versions, or moved out to ports. Awk can be moved > to non-GPL just by MFC'ing a change already in -CURRENT. I'm pretty sure that any of these changes (if so) would be made in 5.x or possibly 6.x, but certainly not 4.x. In case of awk, there are compatibility issues too. I would ask you not to consider 4.x as a reference platform. Use 5.x instead. > The effort to do > all this is relatively small. I'd do it, you wouldn't notice, but I don't > (as you know) have any ability to make those changes. But why the hostility > towards doing it? I know this has the whiff of a bikeshed about it, but to > me it makes sense. Perhaps I'm missing something... No hostility I'm sure but merely the statement that degnuification is not as much of an issue as you'd like it to be. -- Dean C. Strik Eindhoven University of Technology dean@stack.nl | dean@ipnet6.org | http://www.ipnet6.org/ "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli
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