From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 5 16:18:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BB716A46B for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:18:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A56B13C4AD for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:18:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDESK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l65GIAei052458; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:18:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Chad Perrin" , "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:19:00 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20070705073857.GD46581@demeter.hydra> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 Importance: Normal X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:18:13 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Subject: RE: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:18:17 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Chad Perrin > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:39 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! > > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 08:14:44PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > >>Except that bash requires all the icky GNU utilities to build so you > > >>have to GNUify your system. > > > > > >And perl doesn't? It was GPL last I knew. > > > > The entirety of Perl falls under the GPL and Artistic license at this > > time. Read the perl-porters archives for more debate on Perl licensing. > > More to the point, Perl is dual-licensed -- redistributable under the > terms of either the GPL or the Artistic License, at your discretion. Not correct. The Artistic license is less restrictive than the GPL so GPL advocates can take a Perl install and call it GPLd perl - but the Perl FAQ makes it very clear the intent of the Perl maintainers is not to use GPL. As they said, "there is no GNU Perl" I challenge you to point to one, single Perl scrap of code, that is ONLY gpled. As far as I know, anyone submitting patches or modifications to the Perl maintainers has been required to license their patches under Artistic for them to be included. Of course, if people put Perl extensions under GPL the Perl maintainers cannot help that. I do not think, however, that any extensions that are included with the default install are GPL-only. Ted