From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 19 21:12: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (66-188-92-95.mad.wi.charter.com [66.188.92.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14AA37B417 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:12:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBK5Bpl05690; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:11:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:11:51 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <200112200511.fBK5Bpl05690@prism.flugsvamp.com> To: mwm-dated-1009255696.e529b9@mired.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Dirty Little Open Source Secret X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article you write: >Gary W. Swearingen 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message