From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 21:08:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66AA1065708 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:08:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from giffunip@tutopia.com) Received: from web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85C898FC08 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:08:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from giffunip@tutopia.com) Received: (qmail 81538 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Jan 2009 21:08:54 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: U9ZAZdwVM1kYb0ucg0kIj9Gv1ap9usfkDYJQphk7gFg9xpcYC9c.jCQzpS.xqj5Up8C5Apfex00uUwW9hJHdZ8JM5A.iB5nNFbWWKI37kEN1xRj4aA73RaD73yJz._Gt9NrZefFWbKj.nm6Sjcn4bRbnQzqtt6yy2SU3A7jp.GQ3tTZI_w8ht6zZNLym6ku1fqECiVfK1.Kvnw7ERESs7DKqLZ0xKZSj Received: from [190.157.124.207] by web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:08:54 PST X-RocketYMMF: giffunip X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:08:54 -0800 (PST) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Sean Cavanaugh MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <779523.80455.qm@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:32:02 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: giffunip@tutopia.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:08:56 -0000 --- On Sat, 1/31/09, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: ... > FreeBSD is not GPL code. It is BSD Licensed. I am aware of this .. thank you ;-). > The issue is a lot of open source applications that it can run are > GPL licensed. I know there was an effort to replace the core OS apps > that were GPL with 100% BSD licensed equivalents. The effort didn't go far enough. Why haven't we removed GNU readline ? Pedro.