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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: Difference between FreeBSD and NetBSD
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Message-ID: <DCz21t.CIx@kithrup.com>
References: <3v8b7r$ju0@trauma.rn.com> <403j7a$kh1@nnrp2.primenet.com> <405aou$935@agate.berkeley.edu> <406i80$d41@nnrp1.primenet.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 03:08:17 GMT
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In article <406i80$d41@nnrp1.primenet.com>,
Larry Kruper  <lak@primenet.com> wrote:
>FreeBSD is GNU copyleft. 

FreeBSD is *NOT* copyleft, at least not mainly.  There are portions of it
that are (e.g., gcc), but, for the most part, it falls under either the UC
Regents license, or one identical except for the names.

I don't know how or why you came to that conclusion.