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From: jkh@whisker.internet-eireann.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Libraries
Date: 25 Jun 1995 14:17:44 GMT
Organization: Internet Eireann
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In-reply-to: kaila@crl.com's message of 24 Jun 1995 15:48:04 -0700
In article <3si4n4$8ib@crl9.crl.com> kaila@crl.com (Christine Maxwell) writes:
I have indeed been planning on doing this, for use in my development,
as well as for writing documentation on the libraries for my own
reference. I am limited to a 14.4K line to a shell account however, so
this will take me some time.
Walnut Creek CDROM sells a fine CD of 2.0.5 as well.. :-)
I actually mean this only half-facetiously. I made the 2.0.5 CD a 2
CD set, the second CD containing a "live filesystem" of all the
distributions and packages extracted, plus all the source. I've been
using a one-off I made before leaving the U.S. in my own development
here in Ireland and I have to say that it's one turning out to be one
of my better ideas - VERY useful, and well worth buying a CDROM drive
for (IMHO :-).
I have read them both (quite some time ago) and loathe them. I find
them restrictive and cumbersome... Not to mention, likely to cause
headaches for people who dislike legal jargon, and perhaps reducing the
chances of people actually reading and obeying the license. My main
interest in finding all the libraries and functions covered by them, is
to identify the libraries and functions I will need to write in order to
support my own development efforts. (I shall make those freeware, if
anyone would be interested)
"If anyone would be interested." heh heh.. It goes without saying!
We use the GPL stuff out of necessity, not preference, and any time an
opportunity comes up for replacing a bit of GNU code with something
that's BSD (or equivalent) copyrighted without any loss of
functionality, we jump at it. Perhaps it's time to form a "GNU
Replacement Project" for FreeBSD :-)
Our ultimate goal is to produce a system that's completely
unencumbered in any way. You'd be able to give it to your friends,
sell it for a million dollars (if you can find someone foolish enough
to pay for it) print it on leaflets and hand them out on street
corners, whatever strikes your fancy! Anything that brings us closer
to that goal is a Good Thing(tm).
Jordan