From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 12 11:36: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F3D15770; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:35:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA18257; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:33:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA05897; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:33:25 -0600 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:33:25 -0600 Message-Id: <199908121833.MAA05897@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Warner Losh Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , Steve Kargl , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libcompat proposition In-Reply-To: <199908121830.MAA05156@harmony.village.org> References: <199908121830.MAA05156@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : There > : is simply no reason to assume that anything under a gnu directory is GPLd, > : or that anything GPLd is going to be under a gnu directory (which it's not.) > > I'm afraid there is. It has been stated many times in the past that > all GPL'd software resides under gnu. This is true in the big > (/usr/src/gnu) and in the small (src/sys/gnu). The gnu directory name > is magic in the minds of many people, and has been for a long time in > the FreeBSD project. While much of the actual software lives in > /usr/contrib, those parts that are under GPL are still built in > gnu/.... It is confusing, despite your assertions to the contrary. > That's just how FreeBSD has operated for as long as I can recall, > certainly back to the 1.0 time frame. This decision was made before *any* releases were made, and should continue. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message