Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:49:23 -0500 (EST) From: James Howard <howardjp@Glue.umd.edu> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1009255696.e529b9@mired.org> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Dirty Little Open Source Secret Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112201548570.14447-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <15393.28048.349600.568435@guru.mired.org>
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net> types: > > I was about to suggest to Nils that few developers will care to work on > > purifying FreeBSD but few will object to replacing parts whenever > > someone gets the itch to prepare a good replacement and does it. > > So if I were to rewrite all the parts of the base system that used > Perl in Python, no one would object to replacing Perl in the base > system with Python? After all, the PSF license looks more like a BSD > license than the GPL. Having stumbled down this road before, let me warn you first of how treacherous it is. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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