Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:00:44 -0500 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> To: "David W . Chapman Jr ." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IPFilter licence update Message-ID: <003201c0eeed$47b57cb0$0101a8c0@cascade> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106061730440.94127-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com> <003f01c0eeeb$4d03bdf0$0101a8c0@cascade> <20010606195618.C47727@leviathan.inethouston.net>
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You don't need GCC to run the system, only build it. Thus you can install a system that is ONLY BSD licensed code -- or at least, very close. I personally wouldn't mind if the whole system was GPL, versus BSD (I prefer the latter). However, the currently licensing is BSD and as such, the base system (contrib aside) can run with the GPL tools used to build it. Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "David W . Chapman Jr ." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> Cc: "Gordon Tetlow" <gordont@bluemtn.net>; <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 7:56 PM Subject: Re: IPFilter licence update > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:46:34PM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > I agree, it is his perogative. I am glad he wrote it. It is excellent > > software. However, he is making a choice and other people don't have to > > like it, based on sound OpenSource criteria (which he never claimed IPFilter > > was). He can not expect anybody else to feel that it is OK to have non-open > > software incorporated into the base system of an open OS. I say open the > > source up completely under the BSD or equivalent license (as released in the > > FreeBSD OS) or remove it from the base OS. > > > How would you compile anything without gcc or make do without any of > the gnu tools? > > -- > David W. Chapman Jr. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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