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[Lars Engels]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:24:44AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 03:06 AM 2/18/2010, Charlie Kester wrote:
> 
> >http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/pc-bsds-graphical-firewall-manager/
> >
> >"PC-BSD is ... the only BSD-based distribution that’s in a position to
> >compete with the best Linux desktop distributions..."
> 
> Wish it were fully BSD-based! Alas, it uses a GPLed GUI. (Yes, I 
> know that this doesn't matter to everyone, but it matters a lot to 
> me personally. I want to be able to hack on the code without 
> lending support to the political agenda that accompanies the GPL; I 
> also do not want to open myself to appropriation of my work due to 
> having inspected GPLed code. No flame wars, please.)
> 
> In any event, if I were to run a FreeBSD-based desktop system (as 
> opposed to servers and appliances, which is what I do with 
> FreeBSD), I'd want the GUI to be BSD-licensed or Apache-licensed.

Fluxbox is also in PCBSD's base system. It is released under a BSD
license.
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