Re: [tlug] JFS file system license

[Dave Brown <dagbrown@example.com>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:07:08PM -0700, SL Baur wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull
> <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> > Curt Sampson writes:
> 
> >  > On any individual basis, yes. The BSDs spend a few tens of thousands
> >  > of dollars worth of programmer time to write editline;
> >
> > Which seems moderately stupid since ZLE is permissively licensed, and
> > the Zsh guys do it for fun as far as I know.
> 
> They do.
> 
> Not to mention that ZLE is *by far* the superior
> line editing library.  By far.
> 
> I really wonder why someone has not taken that
> ball and run with it.
> 
> The biggest blockage to a GNU-free Linux that I see
> is the dependency on GCC and I've thought about it
> off and on over some years now.

No, that's not the biggest blockage.  A guy I know uses a Linux box
that's built, kernel and all, using Intel's C compiler.

After playing around with the idea for a bit, I realized that the
biggest blockage to a GNU-free Linux system would actually be GNU make.

--Dave