determining what's in the base system

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Mon Apr 21 15:23:04 UTC 2008


Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 04:35:52PM -0700, Luke Dean wrote:
>> For the second question, I've always assumed that /COPYRIGHT applied to 
>> everything in the base system.
> 
> I'm pretty sure GCC is in the base system (for instance), and it's GPL
> software.  There's no mention of it in /COPYRIGHT at all.  Please correct
> me if I'm mistaken somehow.
> 

There's also the ath_hal driver which has its own fairly restrictive 
license in /sys/contrib/dev/ath/COPYRIGHT .

-- 
Bruce


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list