Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:50:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: If Brett only knew... Message-ID: <19990226115028.P431@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990225164531.0401b440@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 04:47:42PM -0700 References: <7b4ikp$d26$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> <4.1.19990225164531.0401b440@mail.lariat.org>
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On Thursday, 25 February 1999 at 16:47:42 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:25 PM 2/25/99 +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > >> Over on debian-devel they're debating a potential Debian GNU/FreeBSD >> project. > > Well, now I know. I'm surprised you didn't before. I forwarded a thread a few days ago, and we discussed it at some length. > All I can say is that this shows the "greed" of the very people who > claim that commercial software developers are greedy. I see you're focussing on the positive side of things. > They will have licensing problems, of course, since major parts of > FreeBSD are licensed under the original Berkeley license with the > advertising clause. They can't use that code and license it under > the GPL. Nor can they link it to GPLed code. Oh yes, I forgot. That's why we had to develop our own compilers. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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