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Sorry, what is GPL ? -----Original Message----- From: Peter J. Braam [mailto:braam_at_cs.cmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 07, 1999 12:49 AM To: Theo de Raadt Cc: Coda Discussion; coda-announce_at_TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Coda license Hi Theo, I think this needs just a little further clarification: - the kernel code for NetBSD and FreeBSD is in their tree, under a BSD license and that will continue to be the case. Of course we will not try to either revoke a license already granted, nor is it our intention to even change the license on the kernel code (it is finally in their tree). I should have clarified this, sorry. - all remaining code for Coda are user level servers and utilities. NetBSD and FreeBSD have other GPL'd utilities such as gcc. Samba is a good example of a GPL'd file server. So I don't really see that this situation is much different from other packages in use by those systems. - Peter - On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > - Coda is now GPL'd - primarily because we want to indicate that we are > > really an OSS project. > > good move -- you've just alienated all the other operating systems and > ensured that none of them will ever fully integrate coda into the > default install. i bet you'll be seeing freebsd and netbsd deleting > coda in the next couple of days, since they have rules against > dropping GPL code into their kernel tree. > > We'll stick with ARLA. It's really _free_ software. >Received on 1999-01-07 10:42:03