Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:41:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: If Brett only knew... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9902261337360.15262-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990225164531.0401b440@mail.lariat.org>
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On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > Well, now I know. All I can say is that this shows the "greed" > of the very people who claim that commercial software developers > are greedy. > > 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. As Debian is mainly concerned with packagaing and integration I don't see how their efforts would conflict with any goals that FreeBSD has. I do think that such efforts would imply a great deal of duplicated effort and that the Linux mindset might not grasp the whole 'FreeBSD as a -system- not just a kernel' but if they want to try and use as much of the GNU utils and GLIBC as possible then more power to 'em. I think if they could work with the ports people to get the features they need to run apt( I believe this is the name of the dselect replacement) against the ports tree I do believe that a number of common goals would be satisfied. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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