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Date:      Thu, 5 Aug 1999 16:29:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, Tim Singletary <tsingle@triana.gsfc.nasa.gov>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: *roff (was Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.8)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908051628020.451-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990805200701.A39053@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 02:09:38PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > 
> > > What we need is someone to volunteer to do it, and place it under a BSD
> > > license.  I imagine that a GPL 'system-manual-page-viewer' would not be 
> > > accepted by -core (and I think they'd be right to do so).
> > 
> > hawk% whereis man
> > man: /usr/bin/man /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man /usr/ports/japanese/man
> > 
> > Our current man is GPL.
> 
> Oops <blush>
> 
> Given the choice though I think we'd prefer a BSD license.

Have you looked at the Mozilla License?  It's becoming more popular, and
I think I can live with that one, it's not virus-like (as the GPL is).


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