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Impressive, but if the goal is for BSD to have a faster grep then clearly the solution is to use GNU grep instead of rolling their own redundant and inferior cl
by MikeTaylor 13y ago
Impressive, but if the goal is for BSD to have a faster grep then clearly the solution is to use GNU grep instead of rolling their own redundant and inferior clone.
- jtmcmc 13y agopresumably GNU grep is GPL and incompatible with their BSD license
- snogglethorpe 13y agoThe GNU GPL is perfectly compatible with their BSD license... :] It's just that the end result is then restricted by the GPL, and they don't want that.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoThat is what "not compatible" means.
- snogglethorpe 13y agoYou can release some software that contains both GNU GPL and BSD-licensed code, and it will be legal to distribute as long as you follow the rules of both licenses; as the rules of these licenses do not conflict, there's no legal problem. This is what most people mean when they say two FOSS licenses are "compatible."
- belorn 13y agoIs grep part of the BSD base system?