From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 8 00:22:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA01803 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:22:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orcrist.mediacity.com (orcrist.mediacity.com [208.138.36.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01798 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:22:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter@orcrist.mediacity.com) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by orcrist.mediacity.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA13620; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:21:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:21:41 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New CODA release Message-ID: <19990208002141.O27505@orcrist.mediacity.com> References: <19990207162848.L27505@orcrist.mediacity.com> <19990208025857M.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990208025857M.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net>; from W Gerald Hicks on Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 02:58:57AM -0500 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 02:58:57AM -0500, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > Pedro has made quite a few useful contributions to the ports collection, > one of which became a toolchain used in the successful development of > several large software projects here last year. > > He's not, by a far stretch, a do-nothing whiner. One who whines is a whiner. I never said, and don't intend to say, that Pedro is do-nothing. Nor is Pedro a whiner in any given situation, only in this one, and even that only in my opinion. Please don't blow my words out of proportion. > I'm sad about the CODA decision too and regret that we cannot consider > using it here in a major project underway, per corporate legal counsel. Well, there is nothing that says that they can't license the software specifically to your company. Why don't you ask them about the terms of such a license? > Also, there exists an exemption from GPL for grandfathered kernel > code right? The kernel code isn't GPLed. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter I got a Pentium II for my girlfriend. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com Good trade, eh? http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message