Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 14:20:04 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com, schwarz@alpharel.com, bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: 3c589 card CAN be made to work BNC Message-ID: <199508010020.OAA00280@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> "Re: 3c589 card CAN be made to work BNC" (Aug 1, 3:28am)
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} } >Good work, "look in the linux sources" why didn't I think of that :-) } >I foolishly tried to get info from 3com... } >I tried your patch and it works, thanks. } } The copyleft combined with the BSD copyright probably prevents anyone except } whoever did the looking from legally using the resulting patch. } Yikes! It's a copyright, not mind control! Copyrights don't cover ideas ... they cover the expression of ideas. I sure hope people aren't staying away from other sources because of this. You shouldn't `cut and paste', but you sure can crib from publicly distributed sources. Let's not re-invent wheels when it's not necessary. Please! Richard
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