From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 00:31:21 GMT
In article <1qq2ts$1lo8@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
In article <1993Apr17.194341.4562@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu
(HJ Lu) writes:
>
> That means no GNU copyrighted code in the "official" 386bsd release.
You are full of shit. The `official' release include GCC, GDB, GNU
tar, and several other pieces of GNU code.
I believe HJ may have spoken a little hastily. I believe, however,
that the Jolitz' have said they do not want any copylefted code in the
*kernel proper*. Hence, Linus was asked (or volunteered?) to make the
math emulation code available under a BSDish copyright, which he did.
I remember a flap in the 386BSD community a little while ago about an
improved serial driver (?) that the author had copylefted, which
angered a good many people, and the author had to loosen the copyright
to the BSDish form for it to be accepted.
Just trying to do a little interpreting and clarifying, and not
leaping into this absolutely stupid and childish series of flame wars.
(And that's coming from someone in the .edu domain, too! :)