Subject: Re: My petty concerns about NetBSD
To: Przemys?aw Pawe?czyk <pp@kv.net.pl>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/07/2006 11:30:56
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:24:23AM -0600, Przemys?aw Pawe?czyk wrote:
> Do I have to think if there were so many NBSD users as you can find in
> Linux world (Debian for example) it woudn't happen? Linux without
> Mplayer?!!! Can you hear the voices of outrage?
NO_BIN_ON_CDROM= a dependency is restricted
NO_BIN_ON_FTP= a dependency is restricted
NO_SRC_ON_FTP= prohibited by USAs DMCA
i.e. licensing issues. Don't blame NetBSD or pkgsrc, these apply to Linux
distro's just as well.
Geert