In message <pine.gso.3.96.990811124754.24208a-100...@mission.mvnc.edu> Kenny Drobnack writes: : This may be a stupid question, but what's to keep from putting xfs in : FreeBSD? Is there something in the licenses that says you can't use : GPL'ed software and software under the BSD License together?
The BSD license allows binary only applications, while the GPL doesn't. However, keep in mind that the GPL has never been tested in a court of law, so how a judge will react to it, and which provisions are legal and which ones constitute unfair or extreme consequences have not been determined. One could argue for years on end about what it says and what other cases have shown, but at the end of the day you still don't know with certainty how it will fair in court. That's why we have a GPL math emulator, but don't include it in the GENERIC kernel. There are many people that repackage FreeBSD for embedded applications who do not include the source code to their proprietary bits and strip out all or most of the GPL software from their deliverables to avoid this potential legal quagmire. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
