From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 19 2:19:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A9A37B416 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 02:19:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-227.wobline.de [212.68.69.238]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fBJAIg711901; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:18:42 +0100 Received: from tisys.org (jodie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBJAKIX27455; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:20:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: (from nils@localhost) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBJAJHP02305; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:19:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:18:42 +0100 From: Nils Holland To: Jeremy Karlson Cc: Brett Glass , Craig Harding , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <20011219111842.B2186@tisys.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011218095233.028ea920@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from karlj000@unbc.ca on Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:09:18AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD jodie.ncptiddische.net 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-Machine-Uptime: 10:41AM up 1:08, 1 user, load averages: 0.46, 0.13, 0.05 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 Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:09:18AM -0800, Jeremy Karlson stood up and spoke: > > I might be willing to "step up to the plate" to rewrite some userland > programs, and I'm probably not alone. Of course, I expect that the ones > that need to be rewritten are the "tough" ones and probably require a lot > of work. This is another issue. In theory, this "work" on re-writing what we already have, only to make it GPL-free, would probably be much more needed somewhere else - for example for working on some completely new programs. If we'd stop all our work now and re-write 30% of FreeBSD all over again, we'd waste a whole lot of time. The question is if the GPL is actually threatening us so much that it's worth it. IMHO, as long as we don't start to stuff our kernel full of GPL code (this started the thread) and generally try to minimize our future use of GPL code, I think the answer is NO at this time. However, I do agree that if things are not handled careful, then the answer may become YES very quickly, and that'd be bad... Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message