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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:32:02 -0700
To: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop
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At 10:24 PM 12/17/2001, Craig Harding wrote:

>Then why don't you run off and make "MediocreBSD" using software that's
>second best but using the One True (GPL-Free) License?

Because it would be far more productive to correct FreeBSD's policies
and kick the GPL out of the distribution. There are few things there
for which non-GPLed code does not exist or cannot be generated with
a reasonable investment of effort.

--Brett


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