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From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
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Subject: Re: Licensing Software
To: ulf@Lamb.net (Ulf Zimmermann)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:46:33 +1000 (EST)
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> > I plan to soon sell a 3rd party commercial binary FreeBSD product.
> > 
> > I either need to :
> > - Develop alone, hooks for such things as 
> > 	- constructing machine IDs (from poking around the system)
> > 	- user count (for single workstation or multi user server pricing)
> > 	- link crippled-write, time limited, demo versions
> > 	- make must be minimal hastle to authors, requiring no change to 
> > 	- sources, just to Link flags
> > 	- non availability to me (as distributor) of source,
> > 	  but availability of .o files
> > - Or I can maybe develop a mechanism with other interested commercial sellers,
> >   so that FreeBSD would have some generic mechanism, & maybe unique 
> >   product & system keys.
> > 
> > - Or I can even buy in such a solution if one's available ?


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