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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!ljg From: ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd? (What to do?) Message-ID: <C6K7B5.7B3@space.physics.uiowa.edu> Organization: The University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] References: <CGD.93May4032535@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 15:06:33 GMT Lines: 38 Chris G. Demetriou (cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: : In article <1993May4.080502.2177@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: : >This is an illusion. 386bsd and the upcoming NetBSD have different goals. : >NetBSD wants to become a PD UNIX like Linux, and will sooner or later : >include things (like code under GPL) which makes it uninteresting for : >commercial organisations. The 386bsd won't adopt GPL-restricted code : >for reasons that have been discussed for a long time. . . . : NetBSD has the same attitude toward GPL'd code as does 386bsd, : and perhaps even a stronger one. : As long as i'm in "control" of NetBSD, there will be: : (1) No GPL'd code in the kernel : (2) No GPL'd code in libc : (3) GPL'd code added to the standard tree only : where no adequate free replacement is presented. . . . : Please, Holger, don't speak for the NetBSD group, : and *everybody* if you've got questions/comments, mail : them, and preferably to the mailing lists listed : in the NetBSD installation notes, because none of : us really have time to read news any more... First let me say that I applaud Chris' efforts in the NetBSD development and respect any decisions he makes with respect to GPL'd code. Second let me say that I'm a strong advocate of GNU products. If Holger or anyone else would like to produce a GNUified NetBSD (gnuBSD (not GNUBSD)) I would be thrilled. Frankly, I had hoped that NetBSD was taking the course described by Professor Veit above. (For those who feel swayed by the mostly straw-man propaganda against the GPL and LGPL, please obtain a copy and read them. gnu.misc.discuss would be the appropriate place to discuss these documents or even suggest modifications that might help promote the FSF's clear intentions.) larry-granroth@uiowa.edu