From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Nov 30 9:58:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E592F37B400; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:58:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 141Y1Y-0000Pg-00; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:01:36 -0700 Message-ID: <3A269600.5037E51C@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:01:36 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , Mike Smith , Nicholas Basila , jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newerThinkpads References: <200011281658.eASGwoF25493@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001129104056.0496b420@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Glass wrote: > > When IBM acquired Whistle, it acquired a product that included, > and in fact depended upon, GPLed code because FreeBSD does. How > did it handle this situation? Is there any chance that IBM might be > interested in helping to free the BSDs from the GPL? The InterJet is *built with* GPL compilers, but does not *incorporate* any GPL code into the product. That is one of the reasons why several of us push back every time somebody wants to stuff GPL code into the base operating system. But I'm preaching to the choir on this point, aren't I Brett? ;^) (mobile trimmed because this doesn't seem to have anything to do with mobile computing anymore.) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message