On 2 Dec 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is it? What does Debian have to do with EvilCorp that Red Hat or > > Slackware doesn't? Why is Debian getting singled out? Why haven't I seen > > the same thing on the FreeBSD lists? It looks as if RMS's goal it to make > > Debian his own private whipping boys again, just like the crusade about > > non-free being too easily available. > > What makes you think that Debian is being singled out? I don't have > any knowledge about what RMS may have written to their leader, do you? > > I don't think FreeBSD brings up the issue, because they don't > distribute any packages of binaries in the way Debian or RedHat do > IIUC.
pkg_add -r gcc on a freebsd box will pull down a binary of gcc without a copy of the GPL. > Thomas > -- CCI Power 6/40: one board, a megabyte of cache, and an attitude... John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
