From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 25 17:35:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6C414EE0 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:35:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA12361; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:35:12 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990225183253.03ed1640@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:35:03 -0700 To: Greg Lehey , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: If Brett only knew... In-Reply-To: <19990226115028.P431@lemis.com> References: <4.1.19990225164531.0401b440@mail.lariat.org> <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" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:50 AM 2/26/99 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> 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. Non sequitur. The use of GCC does not involve relicensing code that was licensed under a Berkeley license under the GPL. And since the runtime libraries used in FreeBSD are not GPLed, it doesn't involve linking one with the other. Also see my subsequent message. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message