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- From: hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl)
- Subject: Re: selling 386BSD (was Re: 386BSD on CD-ROM?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.211105.7916@novatel.cuc.ab.ca>
- Organization: "NovAtel Communications Ltd."
- References: <1992Aug14.160938.22432@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:11:05 GMT
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- Daniel A Muntz (dmuntz@dip.eecs.umich.edu) wrote:
- : The copyright notice included by cgd sets a bad precedent, especially if code
- : containing new restrictions is integrated into the Jolitz' release. We'll have
- : to start rewriting 386bsd code to produce an unencumbered 386bsd release :-/
-
- I was under the impression that the whole spirit of this whole
- thing was to allow normal people full access to Unix code so they may
- learn from it without having to work for a company that has a source
- license agreement. I personally have never had access to Unix source in
- the past until now... I've learnt alot and have even contributed back in
- a miniscule way...
-
- When I spliced the 3c503 driver together, I did it for myself; as a learning
- experience... I also wouldn't have written it if I didn't myself have a
- 3c503 card and want to network 386bsd... I feel I've gotten all the reward
- out of the experience that I need... It seems that a number of people find
- the driver useful and that's an added bonus. If someone really wants to
- take that code and try to make money from it; then so be it... There's
- enough 3c503 drivers for various systems already in the public domain that
- it really doesn't matter... (Especially the driver made available by
- Russ Nelson and Bob Clements from which I took the register descriptions
- almost verbatim...)
-
- Why doesn't everyone just lump all the software they've contributed to
- 386bsd under Bill and Lynne's Copyright??? (Do they want us to do this?
- That's what I did from a lack of anything better to put on it.)
-
- --
- "I was early to finish | hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca <Reply-To> | I brew |
- I was late to start, I | peyerlh@cuug.ab.ca | there- |
- might be an adult, but | #define JANITOR "Network Administrator"| fore I |
- I'm a minor at heart." | JANITOR, NovAtel Communications Ltd.| AM. |
- --
- "I was early to finish | hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca <Reply-To> | I brew |
- I was late to start, I | peyerlh@cuug.ab.ca | there- |
- might be an adult, but | #define JANITOR "Network Administrator"| fore I |
- I'm a minor at heart." | JANITOR, NovAtel Communications Ltd.| AM. |
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