From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 6 18: 5:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from veldy.net (w028.z064001117.msp-mn.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.117.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB0637B408 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:05:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from veldy@veldy.net) Received: from cascade (cascade.veldy.net [192.168.1.1]) by veldy.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 549EABA56; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:05:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <000801c0eeed$f18be170$0101a8c0@cascade> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "David W . Chapman Jr ." Cc: "David W . Chapman Jr ." , References: <003f01c0eeeb$4d03bdf0$0101a8c0@cascade> <20010606195618.C47727@leviathan.inethouston.net> <003201c0eeed$47b57cb0$0101a8c0@cascade> <20010606200343.E47727@leviathan.inethouston.net> Subject: Re: IPFilter licence update Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:05:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't want them to go away -- did you read my message? Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "David W . Chapman Jr ." To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: "David W . Chapman Jr ." ; Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:03 PM Subject: Re: IPFilter licence update > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:00:44PM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > 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. > > > I think its safe to say that gcc isn't going away anytime soon and > half the gnu tools that go along with it, no matter how much more you > prefer BSD license. > > -- > David W. Chapman Jr. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message