From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 11:19:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA28995 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 11:19:53 -0700 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA28989 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 11:19:51 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA19749; Wed, 10 May 1995 11:19:31 -0700 Message-Id: <199505101819.LAA19749@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) cc: davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A question of downloading device drivers In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 1995 10:54:20 MDT." <9505101654.AA25785@cs.weber.edu> Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 11:19:31 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >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. > >Well, there went that argument. 8-). > >How about replacing it with the argument that the code can't be upgraded >without rebuilding the kernel? Neither can any other SCSI driver in the kernel. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================