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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!news!kstailey From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD free? Date: 07 Dec 1994 15:30:37 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 11 Message-ID: <KSTAILEY.94Dec7103038@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <1994Dec2.033418.18026@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <KSTAILEY.94Dec6121810@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <3c2h41$oq2@dagny.galt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: alex@pc.cc.cmu.edu's message of 6 Dec 1994 20:21:21 GMT >FreeBSD and NetBSD both have no GPLed code in the kernel. NetBSD makes a >point of having as little as possible elsewhere, but FreeBSD makes the >decision on a program by program basis (or this is what was going a >while ago, and as far as I know neither group has changed their stance). Hey there are a whole lot of worse things than the GPL. Take software patents for instance. Did you know that /usr/ucb/compress is technically illegal to sell because Unisys has a patent on the algorithm? Nobody pays much attention to this though.