From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 31 22:42:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2FC155DA; Mon, 31 May 1999 22:42:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA18313; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 07:42:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id HAA59777; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 07:42:27 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 07:42:27 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: David Scheidt Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a two-level port system? (fwd) Message-ID: <19990601074227.B58405@bitbox.follo.net> References: <19990601071242.A58405@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from David Scheidt on Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 12:28:11AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message