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Old 6th September 2009
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Given the skills and talent demonstrated by BSD developers, replacing the current GNU elements is not impossible.

Many projects have sparked up in the FreeBSD community related to replacing binutils with some BSD licenced ELF object manipulators.

The PCC project intends to replace GCC, altough this effort requires additional funding and ports to a few additional architectures.. but it's surely making impressive progress.

Recent commits to the OpenBSD tree related to mandoc(1) appears goal oriented as well, intended to replace another big GNU beast.. groff.

As lovely as AerieBSD sounds, it is simply a group of renegade OpenBSD developers whining about Theo de Raadt not being overly respectful of their emotional requirements.

The developers are clearly aware that newer releases of GCC/binutils are (..or may be) licenced under version 3 of the GPL.. but the one thing you need to remember is that BSD has existed long before the GNU project was a gleam in Stallman's eye.
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