From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 19 7:18:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (66-188-92-95.mad.wi.charter.com [66.188.92.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307BA37B41D for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 07:18:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBJFGVf74947; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:16:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:16:31 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Brett Glass Cc: Jonathan Lemon , reed@reedmedia.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <20011219091631.Q377@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <200112182010.fBIKA9739621@prism.flugsvamp.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218180720.00d6e520@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011218180720.00d6e520@localhost> 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 12:27:00AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 01:10 PM 12/18/2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > >In that case, you do a "rm -rf /usr/src/sys/gnu", and that removes > >all the GPL bits from your kernel. > > It removes it from the source. And then, if you try to recompile, > you get errors that say, "there's a piece missing." Which suggests > that it's part of the kernel. But that is only if you try to include those bits. E.g.: kernel + (N)"options XXX" = non-GPL'd kernel. kernel + (N)"options XXX" + "options EXT2FS" = GPL'd kernel. We are in agreement here, right? The key point to note is that *ALL* the GPL bits are optional. Yes it is true that, we don't have a BSD replacement for ext2fs. However, I would lump ext2fs into the same boat as the GPL: undesirable. For things like the loader, ext2fs support has been written from scratch (by yours truly) so there is no GPL code involved. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message