From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:16:35 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] GNU vs BSD before the lawsuit and before Linux In-Reply-To: References: <20170314153815.GA32726@mcvoy.com> <9deec795-ecd6-7924-c10f-b722ee388a0c@kilonet.net> <20170314155718.GH32139@yeono.kjorling.se> <47c38ea0-accb-407b-26c8-6b4877657b21@kilonet.net> Message-ID: Warner Losh wrote: > Many of the gnu tools started life as BSD code that was hacked on and > rebranded with the GPL. [context brutally snipped] This brings up questions about how GNU and BSD operated around 1990ish. I'm aware of Bostic's campaign to replace the AT&T code in BSD, which led to the almost-completely-free Net/2. What I wonder is how much of this was duplicating work also done under the GNU umbrella? How much of it was authors donating their rewritten utilities to both projects? What was the state of the GNU project when Bostic started his campaign? Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Dover, Wight, Portland, Plymouth: Southwest 5 to 7, occasionally gale 8 except in Plymouth. Moderate or rough. Fair then occasional rain. Good, occasionally poor.