Re:CUPS License Change Coming
by klez on Friday November 10, 2017 @02:42AM
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Couldn't they before? I'm pretty sure there's plenty of GPL code in the *BSDs (I'm sure there's emacs in FreeBSD's ports). Am I missing something obvious?
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Re:CUPS License Change Coming
by mikebenfield on Friday November 10, 2017 @02:47AM
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They strongly prefer to avoid GPL code as much as possible in the core system, and have on occasion gone to great lengths to use a non-GPL alternative. I haven't used FreeBSD in a long time, but as I recall ports are considered extra software, not part of the FreeBSD OS.