Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:38:50 +0200 (EET) From: Jukka Ukkonen <jau@jau.csc.fi> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rusers(3) & rnusers(3) Message-ID: <199512180938.LAA09745@jau.csc.fi> In-Reply-To: <199512172039.NAA09925@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Dec 17, 95 01:39:29 pm
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Quoting Terry Lambert: > > > > After getting a bit frustrated of not having the library routines > > > rusers(3) and rnusers(3) available on FreeBSD I wrote them as well > > > as the underlying xdr_utmpidlearr etc. I have tested them to work > > > > Cool! Anybody going to pick this one up? Should I? > > Note that it was not posted under BSD license. It was limited such > that you are not allowed to sell it. Well, my note did not say you should not sell e.g. a CD containing the code I sent. Selling the CD is really charging for packaging together the freely available code in a single distribution media. If the same FreeBSD distribution is available in the net for anyone to take at will, it surely counts as freely available. Selling the CD is not charging for the packaged software per se, but in fact charging for the service (collection & maintenance of the software etc.) and the media. So, there is no problem there. Don't panic. Neither does such a note prevent anyone from using FreeBSD as the operating system for some other product or service e.g. a firewall system that one is about to sell to someone. Notice also that I sent the code to others to test and review. The actual licensing terms can be adjusted to a more suitable and more formal representation later if necessary (maybe to BSD or GNU style) if you think you wish to include the code in the FreeBSD distribution. (The same goes naturally for NetBSD or Linux or whatever freely available UNIX style OS, which you can grab from the net.) My note simply meant that you can distribute the code without limitation to anyone who is interested, but _for the moment_ I am still the owner of the rights to it, whether there is any "intellectual" property contained in it or not. Cheers, // jau ------ / Jukka A. Ukkonen, FUNET / Centre for Scientific Computing /__ M.Sc. (sw-eng & cs) Tel: (Home) +358-0-6215280 / Internet: ukkonen@csc.fi (Work) +358-0-4573208 / Internet: jau@funet.fi (Mobile) +358-400-606671 v X.400: c=fi, admd=fumail, no prmd, org=csc, pn=jukka.ukkonen
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