Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:31:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:31:55 -0500 Received: from hellcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil ([204.222.179.34]:33753 "EHLO hellcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:31:54 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Jesse Pollard To: root@chaos.analogic.com Subject: Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:37:29 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: Richard Stallman , R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl, jalvo@mbay.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200301131137.29161.pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 13 January 2003 11:22 am, Richard B. Johnson wrote: [snip] > > The early Ygddrasil distributions, of which I posted the 'grep' > several days ago, show that most of the files are BSD based. > > I attach it here for your pleasure. Ummm you did a "strings *" twice in the /usr/bin directory.... Though I grant that is still a relatively small number of actual programs. The style they used tended to have one such line per main program (and assuming that was true then too) what you have is only 69 files. /bin only has 8, and /sbin only 4. How many other files were there? If none, then that distribution would be BSD based. Wish I still had my SLS distribution floppies... That would make a nice cross check. I still don't believe the current distributions include that many files any more. There was a request from UCLA to remove propriatary code from the distributions. The major effect was to purge the network code out of the kernel, but it also removed a LOT of user code as well... My mail archives don't go back that far but I think it was around 92/93/94 timeframe. Personally, I think that was the most damaging thing done to BSD. Before that, I used to consider using BSD for production, and Linux for testing. It was said to "use linux for the latest thing, but if you need stability, use BSD". And it appeared relatively simple to switch between the two kernels up to that time... BSD made a contribution then... But it's over. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse I Pollard, II Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil Any opinions expressed are solely my own. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/