Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:35:03 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: If Brett only knew... Message-ID: <4.1.19990225183253.03ed1640@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <19990226115028.P431@lemis.com> References: <4.1.19990225164531.0401b440@mail.lariat.org> <7b4ikp$d26$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> <4.1.19990225164531.0401b440@mail.lariat.org>
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At 11:50 AM 2/26/99 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> They will have licensing problems, of course, since major parts of >> FreeBSD are licensed under the original Berkeley license with the >> advertising clause. They can't use that code and license it under >> the GPL. Nor can they link it to GPLed code. > >Oh yes, I forgot. That's why we had to develop our own compilers. Non sequitur. The use of GCC does not involve relicensing code that was licensed under a Berkeley license under the GPL. And since the runtime libraries used in FreeBSD are not GPLed, it doesn't involve linking one with the other. Also see my subsequent message. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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