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From: mmead@hq.ctr.vt.edu (matthew c. mead)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Berkeley Free CC? (Was: Re: Slight flame from Linux user)
Date: 06 Jun 1995 19:52:30 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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In-reply-to: Terry Lambert's message of 5 Jun 1995 20:14:37 GMT
In article <3qvojd$n14@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:
> mmead@Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) wrote:
> ] You're probably going to have to. In a lot of people's opinion,
> ] the GPL is ass backwards about what you can and cannot do with someone
> ] else's "freely available" code. I'm not saying we're right; I'm just
> ] saying that's our opinion. The GPL endorsers can bloody well have their
> ] own opinion, but the fact that those of us don't believe in the GPL's
> ] philosophies may mean that FreeBSD won't have GPL'd code for a function
> ] which Berkeley licensed code performs just as adequately.
> Get the file system and drivers released under LGPL and they can
> be loaded as kernel modules without removing the patch/source
> distribution requirements AND without causing the rest of the
> code to become "contaminated". Unlike shared libraries, which
> have GPL'ed code stubs and GPL'ed data declarations statically
> linked into the resulting binary, a kernel module load is a complete
> relink, so unlike shared libs, it complies with LGPL.
True, I didn't think of that. That would certainly keep the BSD
code from being "contaminated."
> ] GCC is a different story since there is (to my knowledge) no free
> ] Berkeley licensed compiler.
> There is. It's just not hosted on as many platforms. There some
Oooh... kewl. Where could one running FreeBSD get a port of it?
Or is there a port? If not, is anyone working on one, or could I do it?
I'd like to try it out...
> indication that it produces tighter code (at least that's been
> reported to be the case) than GCC.
Why doesn't that surprise me at all? :-)
-matt
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