viral license free fork of freebsd
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Sat Oct 6 01:46:04 PDT 2007
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> It's not clear this is comprehensive, but it may still be useful in
>> discussing replacing GPL'd components with non-GPL'd ones:
>>
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ContribSoftware
>
> Should we add a column indicating possible alternatives?
Certainly.
> For example, I'm working on a new cpio now, Kai Wang is working on binutils,
> and I'm sure there are other projects in the works.
>
> I agree with other folks who have picked out GNU readline as probably the
> most troublesome. The other GPL-licensed tools are generally separate
> applications that could be fairly easily dropped from any particular
> application (embedded applications probably don't need to distribute gdb or
> gcc, for instance).
For embedded systems, a non-GPL gdbserver might be useful.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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