Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:03:51 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903232001290.239-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19990323095841.A84311@ontario.mooseriver.com>
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On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:34:07AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > > At 09:28 AM 3/23/99 -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > > > > >I assume this means that you are going to stop talking and start writing > > >this emulator. Great, I can't wait to see what you produce. Please build it > > >and prove us all wrong. > > > > Well, I'd be glad to -- but it'd be a Quixotic endeavor without help. Care > > to get involved? > > Sorry, my plate is full but I'm sure there are lots of people who will > help. Try getting some of the Linux people involved. Since this emulator > will be running on Linux you will need at least one person who has a good > understand of the guts of a Linux system. I think there is a book on Linux > Internals. It should be interesting on how you resolve the BSD/GPL > licensing issues with a FreeBSD emulator running on a Linux system. Well, they already have the SCO and DU emulators so those would probably be a good place to start.. And I think that Linus (but not RMS and his coven) are a bit more tame about binary only kernel modules, so I assume that if you're not actually cutting and pasting code you could (without huge riots) release a BSD licensed fbsd emulator... if worse came to worse you could GPL it easily enough (just mention the UCB copyright and that should suffice, right?..).. > Put up a mailing list and a web page. Get yourself a scratch monkey of a > machine and you are on your way. This is probably the most difficult part. I'd be willing to put in some effort (say a few hours/month), but I don't have space for Linux on my box. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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