Re: [MLUG] BSD and GNU

["Bryan Venable" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

It depends on how you look at it.  GPL code can't be considered a
"core" or "required" part of a pure BSD distribution, by definition,
because then you would have to place the GPL conditions on
redistribution of that code.  So e.g. if someone uses just the OpenBSD
system itself without GCC or any other GPL'ed components, then it's
just a BSD licensed system and they're free to use and redistribute it
under those terms.  But if you add the standard compiler package that
the OpenBSD project distributes, that includes GCC and related GPL'ed
components.  The same goes for the other well-known BSD systems,
AFAIK:  they distribute GPL'ed software to go along with the core OS,
and a lot of people install it, but it's officially "optional" so the
core system remains pure BSD.

On 12/21/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Jack Smith wrote:
>
> > I don't know how different it would be to use a BSD live CD as a
> > recovery CD as the BSDs do have some differences with Linux but they
> > still largely use the same GNU program set.
>
> I'm pretty sure that BSD doesn't use GNU programs.  Maybe you meant that
> the programs are like the GNU programs even though they are not compiled
> from the same code.  Is that it?  All UNIX/Linux systems are similar that
> way, and I think POSIX supplies another standard that makes them alike (if
> they try to adhere to POSIX).
>
> Mike
>
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