From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 2 6:54: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A2637B71E for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 06:54:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f32DgWr74178; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 09:42:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200104021342.f32DgWr74178@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Bzdik BSD Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Debian apt-get and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Apr 2001 00:13:38 PDT." <20010402071338.55330.qmail@web13603.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 09:42:32 -0400 From: hawk Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG bzdik buzzed > browsing through Debian lists archives I uncovered a conspiracy: some time > ago there was an attempt to get FreeBSD kernel into Debian. It was lead by > a Polish gentleman if I am not mistaken. It was anathemised, most of all by > J Goerzen (sp?). They started a project, actually. It seems to have died due to lack of interest, but it does have a debian mailing list. I would have found a project going the other way--BSD utilities and a linux kernel--much more interesting. > Main arguments were licensing issues and jeopardising the > whole FSF movement whatever that meant... looked more like "not made here" > and "who's in control" issue to me, but I am no expert on any OS :) Nah, Debian is *really* religious about the GPL, and a major supporter of the High Church of Emacs > which brings me to the perversed in me: could fine people in FreeBSD labour > camp port apt-get from Debian? It seems to be much more convenient. (I did > not imply superior, since I don't understand innards well).If I missed > advantages of the exisiting system, I am sorry and apologise for my > ignorance. As a port, or as part of FreeBSD. I assume it could be ported, but GPL code doesn't go into the main distribution (else all our bases are belong to RMS . . . :) hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 dochawk@psu.edu These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message