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There is an ongoing effort to replace GPL portions of FreeBSD with free

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software alternatives.  The statement that GPL is acceptable is no
longer correct.

The surrounding documentation is actually more strict than it should be
(for example, we accept the CDDL license).  However, this is not in the
scope of this change.
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by commercial interests who might eventually be inclined
to invest something of their own into FreeBSD.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<indexterm>
<primary>GPL</primary>
<see>GNU General Public License</see>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>GNU General Public License</primary>
</indexterm>
The GNU General Public License, or <quote>GPL</quote>.
This license is not quite as popular with us due to the
amount of extra effort demanded of anyone using the code
for commercial purposes, but given the sheer quantity of
GPL'd code we currently require (compiler, assembler, text
formatter, etc) it would be silly to refuse additional
contributions under this license. Code under the GPL also
goes into a different part of the tree, that being
<filename>/sys/gnu</filename> or
<filename>/usr/src/gnu</filename>, and
is therefore easily identifiable to anyone for whom the
GPL presents a problem.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>Contributions coming under any other type of copyright