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- From: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu (Chris G. Demetriou)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
- Date: 14 Aug 92 20:45:05
- Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
- Lines: 59
- Message-ID: <CGD.92Aug14204505@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In-reply-to: merlin@neuro.usc.edu's message of 14 Aug 92 12:13:00 GMT
-
- well, thanks for all the enlightened criticism... too bad i didn't notice it
- earlier -- i was dealing with my mail here on agate...
-
- re: the serial driver stuff:
-
- As a matter of fact, I had just reconsidered, and was about to take
- the copyright notice *OFF* the file, and lo, and behold, i got hit by N
- flames.
-
- Let me set something straight:
-
- I do not do any of the stuff that i've done re: 386bsd (the serial driver,
- the fact that i run the distribution site on agate, the filesystem i'm working
- on) for *you*, or *anyone* else on the net. I do what i do because i *want*
- to. I do not want to be a martyr, thank you very much, and you can
- argue all you want that i shouldn't put a new copyright notice on something
- that i write, but it sure as hell is my right.
-
- Adding that copyright notice, i realized, would do nothing but create
- more hassles for *me*, which i don't want, and so i was
- going to remove it.
-
- remember: you have no *rights* to the works of others; anything they
- decide to give to you, be *GLAD* for.
-
- several more things:
- the original copyright protects the UC regents, and contributors
- of code *TO UCB* from lawsuits, etc. because of use of the code.
- It says nothing about other people who hack on it...
-
- there's a big difference between wanting somebody to pay you for
- your code, and wanting to know who is selling it. If you think
- that any major royalties could from a serial driver, when it's
- such a small part of the 386bsd package, you've gotta be outta
- your mind!
-
- I've never claimed that myt serial driver was in any way official.
- If you consider it so "infectuous," then you certainly don't
- have to use it. Your loss, not mine.
-
- i'm not going to go on any further... I've a good tip on further improvements
- to the serial driver, and i plan to pursue it... However, i'd bet
- that i'm not going to spend any more nights working til 3AM, to get
- stuff out on the net asap.
-
- So, the final word in this round, from me is that *IF* the people who flamed
- me on this had displayed much (if any) respect for my rights as an author
- that copyright notice would be gone right now.
- Since they did not, it's still there, and could very well remain there.
-
- ever read Heinlein? "TANSTAAFL"
-
- cgd
-
- --
- Chris G. Demetriou cgd@agate.berkeley.edu
-
- "Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
- Friday than twenty million instructions per second." -- Wes Clark
-