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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:51:22 +0200
From:      albi <albi@scii.nl>
To:        gabor@t-hosting.hu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Dylan Rogers <dylanrogers1@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD = Free Software?
Message-ID:  <44C7C7BA.1030904@scii.nl>
In-Reply-To: <44C7C6E1.805@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <7edd03a20607261232q6c0d121ap2e79bababbc6a4b0@mail.gmail.com> <20060726213911.62bd50ab.albi@scii.nl> <44C7C6E1.805@FreeBSD.org>

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G=E1bor K=F6vesd=E1n wrote:

>> if you really only want to use "Free Software", have fun with
>> GNU-Hurd ;-)
>>
>>  =20
> Hurd is purely GPL-ed, while FreeBSD is mostly BSDL-ed. BSDL has almost
> no restrictions, so I'd rather say FreeBSD is really free, not Hurd.

i didn't mean to start a discussion about this, but i just assumed that
the original poster was referring to the definition of "free software"
by FSF, which i now realise might not have been the case

and your point is interesting imo




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