Do any of the BSD's work to replace GPL'ed software on the grounds
that the GPL is restrictive?
reddit / BSD

----------------------------------------------------------------------
[deleted] · 2017-09-24 12:46

[deleted]

----------------------------------------------------------------------
floatboth · 2017-09-24 12:55

Yep, a lot of FreeBSD work in this direction:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase

tl;dr big achievements: clang is the default compiler for all Tier 1
architectures, lld is the default linker on arm64.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
BumpitySnook · 2017-09-24 15:08

Yep.  Additionally, there is work ongoing to move to Clang for Tier 2
architectures, and lld for other architectures as well.  BSDL
elftoolchain instead of GNU binutils.  Etc.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
knz · 2017-09-24 15:32

BSD's libedit provides a replacement to GNU readline for this reason.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
[deleted] · 2017-09-24 17:46

[deleted]

----------------------------------------------------------------------
elchief99 · 2017-09-24 19:28

IIRC one of the reasons behind OpenSMTPd was the restrictive license
of Postfix

----------------------------------------------------------------------
ardiefox · 2017-09-24 20:13

I was wondering if libedit provides the API-level compatibility, so
did a quick search and found this:
https://www.cs.utah.edu/~bigler/code/libedit.html

And I’m confused even more.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
knz · 2017-09-24 20:14

Libedit offers a base API that is more powerful than readline, and
*also* includes an emulation of the readline API on top of that.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
ardiefox · 2017-09-24 20:17

Cool! Thanks for the clarification.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
piglit3 · 2017-09-25 09:14

for libedit the motivation was [not need having both readline and
libedit](http://gnats.netbsd.org/4301)

----------------------------------------------------------------------
dlangille · 2017-09-25 09:40

I do not recall that being mentioned during the talk at EuroBSDCon
yesterday.

re https://2017.eurobsdcon.org/talk-speakers/#GillesChehade