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To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop
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At 01:10 PM 12/18/2001, Terry Lambert wrote:

>Too late, we already have the old code under the old license; we
>can just fork their project on them, if it comes down to a license
>change.

And then BSD winds up actually MAINTAINING a GPLed product, which
is not only contrary to the BSD philosophy but furthers Stallman's 
agenda. Not good. What's more, since the key maintainers are working
on the other fork and are likely to be GPL zealots who will not
BSD-license their code, BSD falls behind. Better to have a project 
that's part of BSD and is actively developed and maintained by people 
from the BSD projects. Perhaps Apple could help to fund this, since they
have a specific need for a C/Objective C compiler. What they have
now is forked from GCC, and I doubt that they're happy about harboring
the wildebeest either.

--Brett


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