Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:57:05 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Doug Hass <dhass@imagestream.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com>, MurrayTaylor <taylorm@bytecraft.au.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI Message-ID: <20011017125705.H65676@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011017124937.7295B-100000@ims1.imagestream.com>; from dhass@imagestream.com on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:50:48PM -0500 References: <200110171750.f9HHo7s01640@mass.dis.org> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011017124937.7295B-100000@ims1.imagestream.com>
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* Doug Hass <dhass@imagestream.com> [011017 12:51] wrote:
> > > If anyone has an interest in adding support for the SBS WAN cards to
> > > FreeBSD, feel free to contact me. I'll be glad to help.
> >
> > Just package your driver with your cards, or stick it on your support
> > site. The whole point being that you don't *have* to get your code into
> > the tree; you can maintain it successfully without either a) introducing
> > overhead for us handling your module, or b) introducing latency for you
> > trying to push a new version through our release process.
> >
> > I get the impression you haven't quite gotten the idea here yet; you
> > don't *need* to be in the base distribution, and in many cases it's
> > better not to be simply because it involves less work for everyone.
>
> O.k.--one more message. :-)
>
> We don't want to be in the base distribution. Never have wanted to be,
> nor have I indicated in my messages that we wanted to be.
>
> All we would like to see drivers for FreeBSD available in the market.
> Period.
<peanut gallery>
Even if you wanted it in the base source under a GPL license, we
could put it under sys/contrib which is where we put things with
questionable licenses.
We've also given CVS access to "gateway" developers at companies in
order to improve on their drivers in the past and allow us to modify
the driver to take into account for interface changes within our
bus and system archetectures.
</peanut gallery>
Having it in the base is actually kind of cool and doesn't require
much effort, the only problem I see is that what you want to add
requires a subsystem that is under unfavourable license restrictions
that might require modifications to the base.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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