From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 28 17:09:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14820 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA14776; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:09:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.6/8.6.12) id JAA02705; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:39:01 +0930 (CST) From: grog@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <199707290009.JAA02705@freebie.lemis.com> Subject: Re: SVR4.2MP source code has become available recently? In-Reply-To: from The Classiest Man Alive at "Jul 28, 97 03:05:25 pm" To: ksmm@cybercom.net (The Classiest Man Alive) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:39:01 +0930 (CST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, dennis@etinc.com, sef@Kithrup.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The Classiest Man Alive writes: > On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > >>> No. Under no circumstances should you use it as a reference. This is >>> dangerous. >> >>> Unless, of course, you don't want to do any FreeBSD development, or, if >>> you do, you want to get yourself and/or Jordan Hubbard sued for some >>> intellectual property violation (e.g., copyright or trade secret). > > I'm sure that Jordan wouldn't mind doing a little hard time if it was in > the best interest of "The Project." ;-) I'd strongly contest the notion that inclusion of System V code would be in the best interest of the project. I've always claimed that the real reason they want it kept secret is so that people don't find out how crappily it's written. Greg