From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 19 23: 8:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E619156E2 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:08:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA31035; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:08:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Wes Peters Cc: Shigio Yamaguchi , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU GLOBAL In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:48:01 MDT." <37E5BC81.B57D6396@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:08:02 -0700 Message-ID: <31031.937807682@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > like a virus to everything it touches. For this reason, the FreeBSD Project > has decided no GPL code will be included in the system itself, unless the Actually, that's not *quite* accurate. What we decided was that GNU code would be kept well-segregated from the rest, just to make it clear where the pitfalls were, and that we'd try not to take in any new GPL'd code or accept a GPL'd solution if there was a perfectly equivalent BSD copyrighted solution also available. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message