Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 05:51:43 +0200 (CEST) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" Message-ID: <20030702035143.14462.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi; Before this thread finishes it's natural cycle... I wanted to point out an important issue. The one GPL'd code that we include and that is more poisonous than any other is GNU readline. GNU readline FYI is a library but it is not covered by the LGPL but by the GPL (this was done on purpose) which means that any utility that uses it "borks" into GPL'd. The worst of all is that the code is good and a replacement is not easy :(. Rich Salz had something similar which I sent to some BSD people but it didn't catch much interest. cheers, Pedro. ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mail.yahoo.com/
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