Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 19:29:55 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Justin T. Gibbs), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A question of downloading device drivers Message-ID: <199505100229.TAA05636@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 May 95 20:07:42 MDT." <9505100207.AA20621@cs.weber.edu>
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>> >This was a conscious choice for the AIC7770 support. The POST on the >> >> A conscious choice on the part of Adaptec or the developer? > >The developer. Note I did *not* say "a bad choice"... I render no >judgment other than to note that the static inclusion of that code >in binary form puts kernels distributed with it under obligation >to the GPL as long as it remains GPL'ed code. For the CDROM >distribution, this isn't a problem, but FTP code could be. The code is not GPL'd. The original author of the sequencer code has released it under a Berkeley-style copyright. -DG
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