Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:38:47 +0100 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> Cc: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LinuxBSDos.com article Message-ID: <20100218183847.GK27126@e.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <201002181824.LAA04818@lariat.net> References: <20100218100632.GA60258@comcast.net> <201002181824.LAA04818@lariat.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:24:44AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:06 AM 2/18/2010, Charlie Kester wrote: > > >http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/pc-bsds-graphical-firewall-manager/ > > > >"PC-BSD is ... the only BSD-based distribution thatâs in a position to > >compete with the best Linux desktop distributions..." > > Wish it were fully BSD-based! Alas, it uses a GPLed GUI. (Yes, I > know that this doesn't matter to everyone, but it matters a lot to > me personally. I want to be able to hack on the code without > lending support to the political agenda that accompanies the GPL; I > also do not want to open myself to appropriation of my work due to > having inspected GPLed code. No flame wars, please.) > > In any event, if I were to run a FreeBSD-based desktop system (as > opposed to servers and appliances, which is what I do with > FreeBSD), I'd want the GUI to be BSD-licensed or Apache-licensed. Fluxbox is also in PCBSD's base system. It is released under a BSD license. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkt9iTYACgkQKc512sD3afiaKgCfTZS9gqH3qZu1k7uQ9JzJZJK6 vhQAoJvLQP9BLVsd0o7lkUH7qOgXIveF =BKot -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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