viral license free fork of freebsd
Wilko Bulte
wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Fri Oct 5 01:05:53 PDT 2007
Quoting Aryeh Friedman, who wrote on Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:42:07AM +0000 ..
> On 10/5/07, LI Xin <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
> > Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> > > I am intrested in putting together a version of FreeBSD (at least the
> > > non-ports portion) that is 100% viral license (gpl and lgpl [not
> > > techinically viral but I don't trust it]) free... where would be a
> > > good starting point on this project?
> >
> > Set
> > MK_GNU = no, and
> > MK_GNU_SUPPORT = no?
>
> Will that remove all gnu code?
>
> >
> > Well, if you want a moderate amount of work you may want to try
> > replacing sort(1) with the old BSD one, and optimize it. Also some
> > *roff stuff, etc. If you are really energyic then you will want to join
> > a project like llvm or so for a better compiler.
>
> I will look at what else needs to be done.
"Just" a complete toolchain would also come in handy..
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Wilko Bulte wilko at FreeBSD.org
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