Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 17:44:13 -0700 From: Eric Varsanyi <ewv@boom.bsdi.com> To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD or BSDI Message-ID: <199603090044.RAA18602@boom.vars.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Mar 1996 15:32:33 PST." <199603082332.PAA22797@freefall.freebsd.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > [ Jerry Kendall Border Network Technologies Inc. ] >Which is how it limits this kind of support... Sure you can tell someone >what to do to fix something, but, you can't give them the sources to fix >a faulty program... >8-). > [ Terry Lambert ] > >Once you find the answer and fix it, can you give them a binary patch? > [ Dennis ] >I guess you could, however it makes more sense to submit it to >BSDI and let them do it officially. Much of our kernel and utility code is 4.4lite so you can make fixes, share them, whatever. I don't think its appropriate for me to post the whole license here, but its very liberal in such matters. One paragraph that stands out: [you have the right to] Modify the source code form of the Licensed Program. You own all modifications that you make to the Licensed Program but you must respect the original copyrights included in modified works. You may not redistribute BSDI copyrighted code to non-BSDI licensees. Note that much of our kernel and user code (like FreeBSD) is copyrighted with the Berkeley Copyright so hacking it and posting the diffs or complete sources is just fine. The only place you can't freely post/share copies of full source modules is when we've written them and copyrighted them as such, but even then you can always post diffs (even in a public forum). Also, even on "binary" releases you get lots of source (for all the user mode "contributed" programs and for chunks of the kernel based on contributed code, such as the sound drivers). - -Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBMUDUXDxFdSMFRIw5AQFqsQP/RqiSb//OAEbYAMxqEZiepVvJrA1u8vnE OClRN+LHBy3D9zvCO1WgSdB04PFzUkzqWrxwfvVkIS6bIGV+ZROoWw63Y2sdyIiu PEZgYYZ47ZwN+/Qd1VLWdG9qiEogmtYE4OZxnkNtGLaoiATq0obKOsyjXvNTx9K8 Mq+SjWJbxGg= =PzIP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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