New implementation of Git in OCaml

Re:New implementation of Git in OCaml by teamhappy on Saturday August 26, 2017 @11:47AM (#15105933)

    > The FreeBSD Project aims to produce a complete, 
    > BSD-licensed operating system allowing consumers of the
    > system to produce derivative products without constraint
    > or further license obligations.

https://www.freebsd.org/internal/software-license.html

Also https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html and https://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html#why-berkele...

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Re:New implementation of Git in OCaml by gribbly on Saturday August 26, 2017 @01:07PM (#15106293)

Ok, so it's license philosophy rather than any actual license legality problematics, I can understand that.

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Re:New implementation of Git in OCaml by michaelmrose on Saturday August 26, 2017 @01:18PM (#15106345)

If someone wanted to produce a FreeBSD derivative would they really need to be able to ship a modified version of git?

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Re:New implementation of Git in OCaml by loeg on Saturday August 26, 2017 @08:55PM (#15108393)

Suffice to say, FreeBSD's current stance on licensing is that new GPL2 software in base is unacceptable, and the goal is to get to no GPL2 software in base.

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Re:New implementation of Git in OCaml by xyzzy_plugh on Saturday August 26, 2017 @04:53PM (#15107385)

Probably not, but then it wouldn't be "Free".

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