From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 13 18: 6: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F4337B419 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:05:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1C14C786E3; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:35:57 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:35:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Brett Glass , Terry Lambert , hitmaster2k@yahoo.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011214123557.Q3448@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011213072327.043556b0@localhost> <1155.1008254206@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1155.1008254206@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 13 December 2001 at 15:36:46 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <4.3.2.7.2.20011213072327.043556b0@localhost>, Brett Glass writes: >> At 01:36 AM 12/13/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: >> >>> Brett: don't go of half cocked. Contamination is not an issue, since >>> most FreeBSD won't ever let it be. You need to read the whole thread. >> >> I've read the thread, and I'm concerned. Already, FreeBSD simply >> CANNOT BE BUILT and WILL NOT RUN IN THE DEFAULT INSTALL without >> GPLed code. This means that it is already contaminated, and it >> is truly sad that the project leadership has not made removing >> this contamination a primary goal. > > Brett, > > I've been working on FreeBSD since the very beginning, yet I have > a hard time judging your claim above as either true or false. Well, there are multiple statements: >> Already, FreeBSD simply CANNOT BE BUILT and WILL NOT RUN IN THE >> DEFAULT INSTALL without GPLed code. This is obviously true. There are a lot of GPLd tools in the build environment, notably gcc and binutils. >> This means that it is already contaminated, For some definition of "contaminated", yes. I see this statement as the definition. >> and it is truly sad that the project leadership has not made >> removing this contamination a primary goal. That's a very subjective point of view. I definitely have better things to do than start a religious war. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message