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On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Gary Thorpe wrote:

>> Mentioning moving to freegrep (current from openbsd) to FreeBSD
>> folks got a reply of them sort of quavering about any differences
>> to GNU grep.
>>
>> Me?  My view is if there's a free alternative to GNU code, then it
>> should be adopted and problems will get fixed.
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Does anyone else see the irony of "free" alternatives to GNU code????
>This is an interesting development. There is nothing stopping anyone
>from fixing GNU tools and releasing them as alternatives: they would
>just have to be under the GPL.

Irony?  No.

A key goal of the NetBSD project is not to tell people what they are
allowed to do with our code.  The GPL is not compatible with this
desire, as it places very real restrictions on what someone can do with
GPL'ed code.

Code under the GPL is thus _substantially_ less free than code not so
encumbered, and when we have the option of using less restrictively
licensed code instead, we do so.

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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