On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:11:25PM -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > >his absolutism also causes people to see BSD as a "problem", a > >"social failure". > > > In everything, there is light and dark, interwoven :-) > >recently we saw theft of BSD to GPL, and a large part of the > >GPL community thinks there's no problem with that, that the > >BSD community is being "petty" to make an issue out of it. > > > Well, sue 'em, if it's so. But no point in sulking. Like the ENTIRE > PROGRAMMING COMMUNITY, we're a bunch of cantankerous, > contentious, contumacious perfectionists.
hmmm, I do/have done a fair amount of work adding/maintaining GPL software in the ports collection. I was working on a port for libcdio, an GNU project. there'a a file in NetBSD's pkgsrc that adds support for NetBSD/OpenBSD cd(4). that file is BSD licensed. the README.libcdio file in the libcdio sources mentions this file and says it can't be included because it's not GPL. I contacted the libcdio maintainer about this file, and he again said he could not include it because the BSD license is incompatible. whatever. so I contacted the author of said file, asking if he could change the license so it could be included upstream. he eventually agreed. I'm only posting this because I understand how easy it could be to look at my remarks and conclude I'm just another theo fan-boy BSD zealot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
