From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 8 18:49:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00340 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:49:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00327 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:49:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA24841; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 19:48:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id TAA13804; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 19:48:56 -0700 Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 19:48:56 -0700 Message-Id: <199803090248.TAA13804@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: Karl Denninger , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Someone needs to re-develop "Softupdates" In-Reply-To: <35034f2e.134015736@mail.cetlink.net> References: <19980308191111.08309@mcs.net> <35034f2e.134015736@mail.cetlink.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >According to Kirk, if someone wants to use it in a "Production ISP System" > >(to cite one of his examples) they need to negotiate a license from him. > > > >To use a single word Kirk: NO. > > >That's nothing short of incredible, if you ask me. > > It's amazing how some of the same people who decry commercializing > FreeBSD with donor control of funding have no objection to Kirk's > commercial hooks. Sad isn't it.... > Score 1 for the GPL. The GPL has nothing to do with this. This is simply a commercial entity that has paid Kirk that would like to not having to re-integrate this into FreeBSD as changes are made. Basically, this commercial entity is giving some of it's work to FreeBSD, and making it 'easier' for Kirk to get money since other 'commercial' entities who want to use Kirk's work have everything but the legal license. Sort of a 'big carrot' dangling out in front that they can't legally obtain. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message