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- From: skutvik@sleepy.UUCP ( ECMS TEST)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
- Summary: an unflame from a wannabe hacker
- Message-ID: <325@sleepy.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 16:06:37 GMT
- References: x <l8n8qcINN2c5@neuro.usc.edu> <CGD.92Aug14204505@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle
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- In article <CGD.92Aug14204505@agate.berkeley.edu>, cgd@agate.berkeley.edu (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
- > 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.
- ...
- > remember: you have no *rights* to the works of others; anything they
- > decide to give to you, be *GLAD* for.
- ...
- > ever read Heinlein? "TANSTAAFL"
-
- It seems that we are spending a great deal of time/bandwidth dealing with
- copyright uncertainty (an intended result of the USL vs reality suit??),
- perhaps the best method of dealing with this is to keep the 'core 386BSD'
- unencumbered by personel copyrights. (The right to copyright one's own
- work is not at issue here.) Any personally copyrighted source, be it an
- enhanced version of an extant utility or a new utility could be distributed
- in a seperate (but included) group.
- The ability to redistribute a working OS, under the intent thus far
- expressed by Bill and Lynn Jolitz and others, would not be hampered, and we
- would gain access to a variety of other fine pieces of work to use or not
- depending on our personal beliefs. Personally, I don't feel hampered by an
- individuals desire to copyright (copyleft) their material, so long as it is
- made available for us to use.
- ****Ughh, I hate it when I get up on a soapbox*****
- (This was not meant to be a flame toward either pro or con personal copyrights
- just an expresses wish to return to reading peolples hacks instead of
- legal opinions)
- Pat Eyler- wannabe hacker for hire
- (Borrowing net access from Roy Skutvik)
-