Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 01:01:07 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Tony Ardolino <tony@netcon.com> Cc: Cam Johnson <cam@solidsys.com>, Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, Jim Cassata <jim@web-ex.com>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Netware client for FreeBSD] Message-ID: <12832.911638867@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Nov 1998 07:57:47 EST." <3650214B.19CE4C2A@netcon.com>
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> 1.) Free distribution for non-commerical use only. > 2.) A enhancements must be returned to FreeBSD. > 3.) Commerical use or Resale requires a license from NetCon Corp. > 4.) NetCon Corp. will always own NetCon Software and all clanges. > 5.) Cannot be ported to any other platform Like SCO, or Sun. I don't think you'll get any canned license with quite this many subclauses already written out, but a good starter point would certainly be the Netscape Public License, or NPL. It sounds to me like what you're basically looking for is a way to release it without enabling someone else to outright compete with you by redeploying it as a commercial solution without paying $$$. That's essentially the same thing Kirk McKusick wanted for his soft updates code license (see top of /sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c) since he wanted FreeBSD (and OpenBSD, and NetBSD, etc) to be able to use it freely without allowing the likes of Sun to also incorporate it into Solaris without paying him something for his work. That's also essentially what Netscape were trying to prevent and this is reflected in the NPL. > I also need a committment from a group of people to keep NetCon updated with the > changes in NetWare and Freebsd (About a month a year). We will train and supp The best of all possible people to do this would be existing Netcon customers who are also somewhat technically competent, of course, if such could be found. They'll have access to the proper testing environment and also have the desire to see something like this function properly. Given that you're likely to know the composition of the existing FreeBSD customer base better than I, do you have any ideas? We ripped the last of our IPX network out of Walnut Creek CDROM about 3 months ago so I can't even test it locally myself in any kind of meaningful way. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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