On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:11:25PM -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote:

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> 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.
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