Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Jan 2007 18:08 UTC
"Flameeyes (a Gentoo/FreeBSD developer) recently came up with some serious problems among the various *BSD projects who use BSD-4 licensed code (which is all of them). Even other projects like Open Darwin may be affected. The saga started when he discovered the license problems with libkvm and start-stop-daemon. "libkvm is a userspace interface to FreeBSD kernel, and it's licensed under the original BSD license, BSD-4 if you want, the one with the nasty advertising clause." start-stop-daemon links to libkvm, but it's licensed under the GPL which is incompatible with the advertising clause. The good news is that the University of California/Berkley has given people permission to drop the advertising clause. The bad news is that libkvm has code from many other sources and each of them needs to give their permission for the license to be changed. At the moment, development on the Gentoo/FreeBSD is on hold and the downloads have been removed from the Gentoo mirrors."
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2006-11-18
from gentoo.org:
What is Gentoo/FreeBSD?
Gentoo/FreeBSD is a subproject of the Gentoo/Alt project, with the goal of providing a fully-capable FreeBSD operating system featuring design sensibilities taken from Gentoo Linux, such as the init system and the Portage package management system.
Switch Ports to Portage - What for? You dont get nothing new and You get something slower and less polished then Ports system.
Switch Linux kernel to FreeBSD kernel and use it with Portage - Again. What for? With Linux kernel you get only advantages in that case, Crossover Office, great Wine and Cedega support, native VMware, Oracle ... and many more to stick with Linux kernel.
Init System - instead of rc scripts, is Init so fscking outrageous to switch to it, *BSD rc scripts do their job very well so why bother Init?
Run FreeBSD OS with its strenghts/stability/scalability or go Gentoo all the way and benefit from Linux kernel and bigger commercial support for it.