Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I am intrested in putting together a version of FreeBSD (at least the > non-ports portion) that is 100% viral license (gpl and lgpl [not > techinically viral but I don't trust it]) free... where would be a > good starting point on this project? Set MK_GNU = no, and MK_GNU_SUPPORT = no? Well, if you want a moderate amount of work you may want to try replacing sort(1) with the old BSD one, and optimize it. Also some *roff stuff, etc. If you are really energyic then you will want to join a project like llvm or so for a better compiler. My opinion is that, while licensing issue is important, but there are a lot of other factors that must be taken into account. If a new piece of software has better code quality, better performance, etc., then it would be a big bonus over "just with a license we liked" :-) Optimizing libc/regex might be a good start if you want to go this way. Cheers, -- Xin LI <delphij_at_delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
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