Subject: Re: Better than..
To: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/10/2000 14:13:08
On 11 Feb 2000, Julian Assange wrote:

> 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.

I think gnu/sys would be good. But we need to (well I think we should) add
some hook so that in this case there's a message, say emitted at config
and at compile, which says you can't distribute this kernel to anyone else
due to license restrictions.

Take care,

Bill