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Date:      Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:11:51 -0600 (CST)
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        mwm-dated-1009255696.e529b9@mired.org, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The Dirty Little Open Source Secret
Message-ID:  <200112200511.fBK5Bpl05690@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-chat/15393.28048.349600.568435@guru.mired.org>
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In article <local.mail.freebsd-chat/15393.28048.349600.568435@guru.mired.org> you write:
>Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net> types:
>> I was about to suggest to Nils that few developers will care to work on
>> purifying FreeBSD but few will object to replacing parts whenever
>> someone gets the itch to prepare a good replacement and does it.  
>
>So if I were to rewrite all the parts of the base system that used
>Perl in Python, no one would object to replacing Perl in the base
>system with Python? After all, the PSF license looks more like a BSD
>license than the GPL.

I seriously hope you were being sarcastic here.

If not, then the short answer is: "no way in hell".

However, replacing Perl with C will be accepted, (and is being done too).
So if you produce suitable working code, it will find its way into the tree.
-- 
Jonathan

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