Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:47:15 -0800 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's use of GCC (Was: Bystander shot by a spam filter.) Message-ID: <20030104234715.GA739@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030104112345.02a48b70@localhost> References: <200212312041.gBVKfr183480@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3E120659.3D60EB30@mindspring.com> <20030101140530.GA11468@raggedclown.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104112345.02a48b70@localhost>
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Thus spake Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>: > Secondly, the FreeBSD project is insufficiently vigilant regarding > the issue of dependency on GPLed code. Of the BSDs, FreeBSD > has the most GPLed code, and would be the most crippled if > that code were removed. This is sad, IMHO, because it prevents > FreeBSD from being truly free. Most of FreeBSD may be licensed > under the BSD License, but what good is that if one can't install > it on one's machine without bringing in the GPL? I believe the policy is, ``Technical merits first, religion second.'' Occasionally there are *practical* reasons for having a non-GPL'd version of a particular component in the base system, so people write replacements. But nobody is going to (for instance) prematurely replace gcc with TenDRA for the sake of a few embedded systems developers until TenDRA works as well as gcc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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