From: Andrzej Kukula (akukulagmail.com)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2007 - 11:52:14 CDT

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On 9/24/07, Vivek Khera <vivekkhera.org> wrote:
>
> On Sep 24, 2007, at 6:35 AM, Gerard wrote:
>
> >
> > I was just wondering if that is actually true. I had never heard of
> > that before.
>
> Ask the person who posted that why gcc is included in the base
> system. It is GPL too.
>
> I think the real reason is mostly inertia why Sendmail is in the base
> and hasn't been replaced. I don't think it has much to do with the
> Postfix license.
>
>
> Personally, I think the base system in FreeBSD could be thinned out
> quite a bit by moving some of these things into packages that are
> installed by default... things that come to mind are BIND and
> Sendmail. This has been done for Perl already, so there is
> precedent. But I digress...

Last year I asked Scott Long, the FreeBSD Release Engineer, almost the
same question and he told me he had no plans to remove sendmail from
FreeBSD.

Regards,
Andrzej Kukula

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