On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:55, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 21:10 +1300, Richard Tindall wrote: > > For Lyndsay: there are Debian(-based) OS's, and there are other OS's > > (imho). > > which ones do you use Rik? > > > So you're correct. There's just Gnu(GPL'd)/Linux, and > > Gnu(GPL'd)/Linux. > > (And BSD.) > > Linux is released under the GPL but it is not GNU software. > > The balance of the software in distros is released under many licenses. > > Some of it is GNU software, and under the GPL. As I understand it if you > want your software to come under the GNU umbrella you must assign your > copyright to the Free Software Foundation > > Some of it is under the GPL but not GNU software. > > Some of it is open sourced under other licences, examples of which are > the mozilla public license, in fact too many to name. xorg-x11 lists all > of these licenses: "Adobe-X CID DEC DEC-2 IBM-X NVIDIA-X NetBSD SGI > UCB-LBL XC-2 bigelow-holmes-urw-gmbh-luxi christopher-g-demetriou > national-semiconductor nokia tektronix the-open-group todd-c-miller > x-truetype xfree86-1.0 MIT SGI-B BSD || ( FTL GPL-2" > > Some is not open sourced at all, or under "free" but not "free" > licenses. > > The BSD license is a quite different to the GPL, it doesn't require > release back to the community or distribution of modified sources - you > only have to credit the BSD crowd. Hence there is reputedlty (or maybe > was) BSD networking code in some versions of windows. > > I suspect it would be possible (but bloody difficult and largely > pointless except as an academic exercise) to run linux without GNU > software.
There was reportedly a BSD-userland Debian mentioned sometime around 1999. Anyone know anything about it? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
