der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> writes:

> GPLing them will actually make it more difficult for NetBSD to support
> them (except, possibly, as LKMs), as we'd then have to reimplement
> truly free (or I should say, more nearly truly free) versions of them.
> (We don't accept GPLed code in the kernel.)

There is no reason we can not use gnu/sys to do this in the way we are
currently for softupdates. Personally I find license ideology getting
in the way of features idiotic.

Cheers,
Julian.

-- 
Stefan Kahrs in [Kah96] discusses the
   notion of completeness--programs which never go wrong can be
   type-checked--which complements Milner's notion of
   soundness--type-checked programs never go wrong [Mil78].