From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 19 00:05:21 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA02162 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:05:21 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA02156; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:05:19 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA25053; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:03:30 -0800 Message-Id: <199503190803.AAA25053@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), peter@bonkers.taronga.com, gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: SVNET Meeting? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Mar 1995 23:43:13 PST." <199503190743.XAA22721@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:03:29 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >> >> organization could sell binary distributions of. Even though the >> >> GPL is restrictive, FreeBSD differs from NetBSD in distributing >> >> GPLd portions of the kernel. >> >> >Are they linked into the kernel on any of the kernels distributed from >> >Freefall? If they are, then that has the effect of putting the kernel >> >under GPL. You need to be *very* careful about this. >> >> "Only" the ahc driver in the GENERIC kernel. Only the firmware used by the ahc driver (a single generated .h file). >Oh shit, this means we should probably not ship the ahc linked into >the GENERIC kernel :-(. If it is going to be killed, we need to come up with an alternate method for folks with these cards to install. I sent a query about the copyright (again) to the author last week, but I haven't heard back yet. I haven't gotten a straight answer out of him yet. :-( > > >-- >Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com >Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================