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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!fw.novatel.ca!sidney.novatel.ca!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD free? Date: 11 Dec 1994 01:04:06 GMT Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3cdj67$rt9@fw.novatel.ca> References: <1994Dec2.033418.18026@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <KSTAILEY.94Dec7103038@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidney.novatel.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Sorry, I don't know who wrote the comment below so I can't attribute correctly) : >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). Last time I looked, the snd-drv stuff was GPL'd and last time I looked, that's what FreeBSD was using for its soundcard support and last time I looked, that stuff goes in the kernel. Hence, "premise A" is false. [Your mileage may vary] -- hpeyerl@novatel.ca | NovAtel Communications Ltd. hpeyerl@beer.org | <nothing I say matters anyway> On your birthday 10/02 322 BC: Aristotle dies of indigestion. [hmm]