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Date:      Sun, 11 Jan 1998 03:45:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        grog@lemis.com, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, jamie@itribe.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Book Request
Message-ID:  <199801110845.DAA00303@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <11761.884504663@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 10, 98 11:44:23 pm"

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Jordan K. Hubbard said:
> > > Funny you should mention that, since it was also our conclusion at the
> > > recent FreeBSD-sf meeting.  Some folks went away to look into adapting
> > > the HowTo's for FreeBSD, no status on that yet tho.
> > 
> > Great.  Was nobody too worried about the GPL? 
> 
> If we can deal with this for our compiler, I think we can deal with
> this for a section of our docs. ;)
> 
There should be no problem with "oddly" licensed tools.  It is the
runtime that needs to be maintained to be unencumbered, and (IMO) the
documentation is one of those things where GPL is less undesirable
than in the runtime areas.

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.



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