Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:01:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Vinum license (was: GPL issues (Was: More important Windows Refund Day coverage)) Message-ID: <19990224110137.B93492@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990223091605.D2606@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:16:06AM %2B0100 References: <199902211924.OAA02025@y.dyson.net> <19990221180845.J93492@lemis.com> <199902211924.OAA02025@y.dyson.net> <19990222082525.A1429@ska.bsn> <4.1.19990221233032.03fffba0@mail.lariat.org> <19990222143416.A25682@netmonger.net> <19990223091605.D2606@bitbox.follo.net>
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On Tuesday, 23 February 1999 at 9:16:06 +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 02:34:16PM -0500, Christopher Masto wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 11:37:17PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >> bad. We can still get along. Every day I use FreeBSD it bothers me a >> little that things like softupdates and parts of vinum are not free >> software. Maybe one day I or someone else will write free > > Soft updates come under a license that is approximately as restrictive > as the GPL. No, I'd say it's more restrictive. > Vinum has parts restrictively licensed to pay for the development of > the other parts. The parts that haven't been freed yet will be freed > later (if I understood Greg Lehey correctly). Not quite. The parts are restrictively licensed to pay for the development of exactly those parts. The remainder of Vinum is still usable and offers more than ccd. I had the choice of developing the RAID-5 software for ccd and leaving it with Cybernet, or putting it in Vinum and getting it released on a Berkeley license after 18 months. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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