From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 20:51:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D889C37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 20:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web13406.mail.yahoo.com (web13406.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79A4043FF5 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 20:51:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030702035143.14462.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.91.194.155] by web13406.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 02 Jul 2003 05:51:43 CEST Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 05:51:43 +0200 (CEST) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 03:51:45 -0000 Hi; Before this thread finishes it's natural cycle... I wanted to point out an important issue. The one GPL'd code that we include and that is more poisonous than any other is GNU readline. GNU readline FYI is a library but it is not covered by the LGPL but by the GPL (this was done on purpose) which means that any utility that uses it "borks" into GPL'd. The worst of all is that the code is good and a replacement is not easy :(. Rich Salz had something similar which I sent to some BSD people but it didn't catch much interest. cheers, Pedro. ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mail.yahoo.com/