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Re: Debian FreeBSD



[ moved to the appropriate forum ]

On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:59:28PM -0600, Andrew G . Feinberg was heard to say:
> > Some might quibble with "will" above.  I think it's only a matter of
> > time.  We've seen it hapen so much already.  It serves our Free
> > Software community poorly to produce software that is simply
> > proprietarized by any company that wishes.
> If we were to release a BSD-based distro, we could have a corel-beta
> scenario all over again, and could do _nothing_. Bad.

  How would the fact that the kernel of the system is BSD make it OK to violate
the GPL license on dpkg, apt, *emacs, gcc, Gnome, KDE, ....?

  Daniel


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