From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 4 15:47:18 2003 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 E563237B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:47:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-233-57-224.client.attbi.com [12.233.57.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F4443E4A for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:47:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h04NlG0j000806; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:47:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h04NlFRj000805; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:47:15 -0800 From: David Schultz To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , Cliff Sarginson , 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> Mail-Followup-To: Brett Glass , Terry Lambert , Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200212312041.gBVKfr183480@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3E120659.3D60EB30@mindspring.com> <20030101140530.GA11468@raggedclown.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104112345.02a48b70@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030104112345.02a48b70@localhost> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Brett Glass : > 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