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Subject: Re: Mike Shaver: Netscape gives away source code for Communicator
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From: Christoph Toshok <toshok@Hungry.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 1998 02:57:37 -0800
In-Reply-To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au's message of 22 Jan 1998 19:07:20 -0800
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avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
> 
> 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.
> 

hmm.. it hasn't since 4.04 (actually a bit earlier..)

christoph