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Cc: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: viral license free fork of freebsd
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 22:47:43 -0700
Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:03:08AM +0000, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> > I am intrested in putting together a version of FreeBSD (at least
> > the non-ports portion) that is 100% viral license (gpl and lgpl
> > [not techinically viral but I don't trust it]) free... where
> > would be a good starting point on this project?
> 
> This is off-topic for the freebsd-current list.  Try 
> freebsd-chat or freebsd-advocacy.
> 
> Redirected to chat.

Outside of the compiler stuff, why not start to help out by writing
BSDLed versions of stuff in src/gnu?

It would most likely be a lot more productive than forking.