From owner-freebsd-arch Wed May 31 6: 9:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B39837B882 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 06:09:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12x8F0-000BvW-00; Wed, 31 May 2000 15:08:58 +0200 Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 15:08:58 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More or Less and GNU Message-ID: <20000531150858.A45800@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200005311304.e4VD40n08288@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005311304.e4VD40n08288@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 06:03:41AM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2000-05-31 (06:03), Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > 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. 'less' is distributable under the 'less' license, which is more-or-less (ug!) BSD-license-equivalent. The less README file says: This program is free software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: 1. The GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license is in the file COPYING. or 2. The Less License, in the file LICENSE. The less LICENSE file says: Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Mark Nudelman Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message