Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 01:44:13 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...") Message-ID: <20020124014413.F53456@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:57:18PM -0800 References: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123091107.T32624-100000@localhost> <20020123124025.A60889@HAL9000.wox.org> <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com>
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--EDJsL2R9iCFAt7IV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:57:18PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > 5) You can't even do it for the money, and still be > allowed to use the FreeBSD trademark by calling > it FreeBSD, unless you donate the code back, it > happens to get accepted instead of rejected, and > you thus remove your source of "value add" from > which you expect to recoup the R&D costs with a > proprietary FreeBSD CDROM distribution that has > a technical barrier to entry for duplication (it > might as well be under the GPL). Not true. I've had this argument with you before. You, or anyone else, are free to create their own installer and/or related technologies. You can create your own FreeBSD distro if you want,= =20 and go and market it.=20 But you must also include, somewhere, the project's installation routine, and provide a mechanism that lets the end user choose what gets run. For example, you might ship on CDROM, and include the project's floppy disk images, and instructions on how to use them to create a "FreeBSD Project" install. Or you could describe how the user can interrupt the boot process and change the init path variable to point to sysinstall instead of your own installer. But you can make your installer the default if you want. Just make sure they can get to the project's installer as well. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --EDJsL2R9iCFAt7IV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxPZusACgkQk6gHZCw343VEsQCfZVmXgIwK2oneIH17/SGAAsLQ KHMAn3+QJl4yix7PV5IgpGrXnurS89L7 =BTkQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EDJsL2R9iCFAt7IV-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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