Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:55:02 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> To: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> Cc: Matt Meola <mmeola@uswest.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a call for s/w support Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9903241645040.12427-100000@mercury.webnology.com> In-Reply-To: <36F967E8.6AA3B5BF@thuntek.net>
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On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Donald Wilde wrote:
> As I just told Anton, I have my reasons. We're promoting BSD as a
> platform for what can be accomplished quickly with BSD-licensed
> software. Although gcc is encumbered, code produced with it is not.
Nor are Perl scripts, Don. Look, I'm not trying to beat a dead horse or
play semantics with you. I see no sense in rewriting your existing
application in C++ because of licensing resteictions which simply do not
exist.
Source code is not produced with either gcc or the Perl interpreter (I
produce most of my own source code with vi). The binaries generated by
both are unencumbered. Only the tools themselves are encumbered, and Perl
is less encumbered than gcc.
> We are attempting to showcase what can be accomplished for profit by
> companies who adopt BSD-license source code.
Then don't waste time reinventing the wheel, if it's truly unnecessary.
There may be perfectly legitimate reasons to recode the thing in C++.
Licensing isn't one of them. Perl source code can and has been released
under BSD licenses.
> For future reference, I'm asking for help doing what I have planned to
> do, not suggestions on how to do it differently, and I'm not going to
> get dragged into wasting my fingers typing answers to Perl or Python or
> Scheme or Smalltalk or Assembler suggestions... Please respect this,
> I've got a job to do.
And I'm truly overjoyed you're on the job. But I'd rather not see you
waste your resources on a recode job if it's not necessary.
Cheers,
Mick
P.S. I'll trim you out of any future replies, if you'd like.
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