From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 25 17:20:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325F714E62 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA02660; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:50:35 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA44314; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:50:28 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990226115028.P431@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:50:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: If Brett only knew... References: <7b4ikp$d26$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> <4.1.19990225164531.0401b440@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990225164531.0401b440@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 04:47:42PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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