James Carlson <james.d.carlson at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling writes:
> > Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> > > That's an argument for closing off /usr/bin. Everything should go into
> > > a /usr/pkg/*/bin or /opt/*/bin or whatever, and every user is
> > > responsible for maintaining a very long PATH or a lynk farm.
> >
> > IIRC, software not under BSDL has a hard way going into /usr/bin/
>
> I don't think I understand why that should be. We already have
> non-BSD things in /usr/bin.
>
> We even have GPL'd things in ON.
Let me a bit more specific.
I was talking about /usr/bin on e.g. FreeBSD
On FreeBSD, you need to have a very good reason if you like to include
a program that is less free (e.g. because it is GPLd) than the BSDL.
The reason is that the basic OS should be free enough. The FreeBSD
people like to be able to have a working system that does not depend
on GPLd software for it's basic functionality.
I believe that similar rules should apply to OpenSolaris.
J?rg
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