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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Mike Shaver: Netscape gives away source code for Communicator
To: AdamT@smginc.com (Adam Turoff)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:04:47 +1100 (EDT)
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sef@kithrup.com
In-Reply-To: <34C825ED@smginc.com> from "Adam Turoff" at Jan 22, 98 09:10:00 pm
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In some mail from Adam Turoff, sie said:
> 
> 
> >Please bear in mind there is a good chance that it will be released   
> under a
> > "for non-commercial use only" license, in which case it won't be able   
> to be on
> > the freebsd cdrom.  Still.
> 
> Uh, no.  According to the press announcement, the source is going out
> under the GPL.  They get the rights to see any new feature someone
> comes up with and can't limit use of the source.  Should be free to use
> with the *BSD/Linux/etc. CDs.

Not just that, but it will be possible to compile Netscape (finally!) for
all those obscure ports such as hp300, etc.  No longer is FreeBSD required
to use a BSDI compatible browser, etc.

Presuming you have motif, of course, to compile it with :-)

Darren