Smells like Debian. Smells like Slashdot. I give up. On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Jeremy Chadwick > <free...@jdc.parodius.com>wrote: > >> Given the amount of GPL'd software in the base system, why are we >> already fighting over licensing? What is it with the open-source world >> and obsessing with licensing? It should be up for discussion after >> alternatives have been determined as viable candidates (see below). >> > > Probably rhetorical, but not all licenses are created equal. BSD license > has a particular advantage in embedded/black box systems, so not polluting > base with more viral licensing is pretty important to project as whole I > think. There's a reason things like IronPort aren't Linux based. Take for > example the way ZFS was implemented. It was done that way to keep the CDDL > out of the kernel. That's part of the reason booting of ZFS is the way it > is as a separate loader, not integrated. Licenses are a big deal, our world > is not laissez-faire regarding them. > > Yes there are still some GPL tools in base but the number is really quite > small and shrinking, however what's there is pretty big and quite > essential. There has long been active if not frequently vigorous work to > remove those bits. It seems GNU grep is nearing it's end, and man page > stuff is being worked on, CLANG over GCC, etc. > > Anyway, my point was not to advocate fossil for this task, but to point out > BSD license is a concern. Perhaps if you are able to find consensus, > requesting a license change might be an option. > > -- > Adam Vande More > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >
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