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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:48:59 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        grafan@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: src/gnu
Message-ID:  <20070125.084859.-261386053.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0701210945r686e54d5vfc7529d57cf372a6@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6eb82e0701210945r686e54d5vfc7529d57cf372a6@mail.gmail.com>

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In message: <6eb82e0701210945r686e54d5vfc7529d57cf372a6@mail.gmail.com>
            "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> writes:
: >From hier(7), it says sources covered by GPL are placed here.
: Does that mean all build glue for things covered by GPL have to
: be placed in src/gnu/?
: 
: I'm asking because I noticed there are some applications/libraries
: that are covered by GPL live in outside src/gnu.

src/gnu used to contain the sources for GPL programs.  Now it just
contains the build infrastructure for GPL programs with the actual
sources living in src/contrib.  There may be a few 'legacy' programs
remaining in src/gnu.

Warner



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