From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 26 12:02:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA26737 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:02:12 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA26731 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:02:10 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA02387; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:01:53 -0700 To: Chien-Ta Lee cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kernel builder In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Aug 1995 22:18:05 +0800." <199508241418.WAA11087@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:01:53 -0700 Message-ID: <2385.809463713@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I am sorry for that, I said that no commercial use is for some > CDROM sellers who will not respect your stuffs. > > FreeBSD core team are very welcome to use it (even put on cdrom), > but if I were you, I will not do it, b'cos my script is very POOR. > (first you will have to re-write it all) :( I didn't mean to get the impression that we didn't like your stuff, far from it. I was simply trying to make it clear that the "BSD" copyright represents our ideal as far as copyrights are concerned, and we see no reason to put "no commercial use" limitations on anything. Sure, I understand your own motivation for doing so but we're also not particularly worried about "CDROM sellers who don't respect our stuff." We would, of course, ALWAYS prefer that they respect our work but to try to legally enforce it just ends you up with lots of code with overly-restrictive copyrights on it! :-( Your own little script is actually quite an inspiration, and I hope that we can do an even fancier version that lets you "zoom" on different devices when you want to edit their port/irq/drq settings rather than just accepting the defaults. It would also be nice if it inherited the defaults from your previous kernel config file! All of those features can be added to a more complex kernel-config tool, and I'm sure that they will be, but you've at least shown that a pretty credible job can be done the simple way too! I was actually fairly impressed with your little shell script.. Jordan