Re: viral license free fork of freebsd

On 2007-Oct-4, at 22:28 , Jeff Roberson 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?
>
> It's all in src/contrib and src/sys/contrib.

Contrib is a container for externally maintained bits of the core OS,  
regardless of license.  For example, csup, openpam, telnet and  
traceroute (at the least) are distributed under one of the classical  
BSD licenses.

If you're worried about the GPL you want to rm /usr/src/gnu.

--lyndon