Re: eliminating GPL apps on FreeBSD

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For example ... ?  Is there a list of apps being maintained, and, maybe,=20
reasons why they haven't been adopted?

I recall this conversation happening before, over ... grep? ... and there=
=20
were alot of things missing from it that the GNU version had, which was=20
why it wasn't considered suitable yet to be adopted ...

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Jorge Mario G. wrote:

> Hi guys
> well just a ramdom thought
> latelaly a lot of GPLed apps have been re-written to
> BSD equivalents.
> (Free/Net/Open)BSD have all worked on this, but there
> seems to be no cooperation among us (them)
> it would be nice if we could integrate all the
> re-written parts, or at least the FreeBSD project
> could do it. so that way we would reduce the GPL code
> in the system
> shouldnt be there an iniciative to do this?
>
> P.S.: I'm doing what I can to make this happen
>
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