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Re: FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 1 now available

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> Authors of individual files are clearly free to release their own work under BSD even inside such a GPL-licensed compilation, and if someone takes out all GPL code, the result can be distributed under BSD license. > BSD doesn't need to "relicense" anything as the license to the existing code already permits combining with the GPL . I don't see how it can be made any more clear. If you remove the GPL code, it no lon…

Do these words look familar? > GPL only prevents added restrictions from being added to the GPL code itself, or the combined work. If users downstream remove said code, then it would not be a combined work anymore. Perhaps you should read your own work before replying. > You said it was impossible, yet they did it. O'rly? Where was that?

> Perhaps you should read your own work before replying.

Perhaps you should read your own words before replying.

>> You said it was impossible, yet they did it.

> O'rly?

>>>> No, this is impossible. Linuxemu is a compatibility layer for Linux user-mode binaries. It emulates the Linux system call interface. It cannot be used with Linux drivers.

>>> emulation layer ... provide a sufficiently complete emulation of the kernel APIs so that device drivers could be used.

> Where was that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426384

Re: FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 1 now available

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post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do these words look familar? > GPL only prevents added restrictions from being added to the GPL code itself, or the combined work. If users downstream remove said code, then it would not be a combined work anymore. Perhaps you should read your own work before replying. > You said it was impossible, yet they did it. O'rly? Where was that?

> Perhaps you should read your own work before replying. Perhaps you should read your own words before replying. >> You said it was impossible, yet they did it. > O'rly? >>>> No, this is impossible. Linuxemu is a compatibility layer for Linux user-mode binaries. It emulates the Linux system call interface. It cannot be used with Linux drivers. >>> emulation layer ... provide a sufficiently complete emulation of the k…

> Perhaps you should read your own words before replying.

Perhaps you should read your own words before replying.

>> Where was that? > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426384

No, someone else may have said it, I didn't. Please quit misattributing words to me.

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