Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 19:07:40 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory Message-ID: <20020424020740647.AAA735@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <15557.63103.194310.947011@guru.mired.org> References: <20020423235147062.AAA735@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
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On 23 Apr 2002, at 19:04, Mike Meyer boldly uttered: > In <20020423235147062.AAA735@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>, Philip J. Koenig <pjklist@ekahuna.com> typed: > > Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > The rationale for inclusion in the base system as opposed to ports > > > > has usually been licensing issues. > > > By some odd quirk, I've never heard any such rationale. > > The two examples I can think of off the top of my head are bash and > > apache. > > Neither of those is in the base system. > > <mike Exactly. My understanding as to *why* they are not in the base system (especially in regards to bash) is because their respective licensing schemes were not compatible with the FreeBSD license. I'm not the first person who wished for a 'standard' bash shell to be part of the base system (ie as root's default shell) but I've been told in the past it will never happen due to licensing issues. Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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