From owner-freebsd-arch Wed May 31 6: 4:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A94737B8EA for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 06:04:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id GAA26552 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 06:04:29 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda26550; Wed May 31 06:04:10 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id GAA79767 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 06:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdw79765; Wed May 31 06:04:01 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.10.1/8.9.1) id e4VD40n08288 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 06:04:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005311304.e4VD40n08288@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdkc8284; Wed May 31 06:03:41 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-Sender: cy To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: More or Less and GNU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:03:41 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've noticed some commits to -current and ports over the last week that indicate that Berkeley more is being replaced by GNU less. Granted less is a better product and I use it myself, my question is about GNU licensing. First, from the standpoint of GNU licensing this is a bad thing. Secondly, I've seen numerous discussions on various mailing lists about why not to do something or another because of GNU licensing, yet we replace applications with Berkeley licenses with GNU licenses. Why are we then so concerned with GNU licensing in the first place when we so quickly replace a Berkeley application with a GNU application, especially when, at least as far as the features I use, behave so closely? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message