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Date:      Tue, 1 Jun 1999 07:42:27 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: a two-level port system?  (fwd)
Message-ID:  <19990601074227.B58405@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990601002026.6035B-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>; from David Scheidt on Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 12:28:11AM -0500
References:  <19990601071242.A58405@bitbox.follo.net> <Pine.NEB.3.96.990601002026.6035B-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>

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On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 12:28:11AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> 
> > (3) Hit jkh with a baseball bat until he stops refusing to use soft
> >     updates on the boot floppy during install (due to "making a point")
> 
> What exactly is the point?  We clearly wouldn't be distributing a
> kernel withoutthe whole sources, so I wouldn't think we would be
> violating the license.

The point that FreeBSD won't willingly be using restricted source code
as a part of our distribution mechanism, I think.  It seems to be
within the license, and anyway I believe that Kirk would be willing to
grant us an exception for using it on the boot floppy if it wasn't.

Eivind.


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