From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 4 09:48:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA27682 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:48:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA27588 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:48:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from pedro.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.43]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA11205; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:51:06 +0500 Message-ID: <34D8A874.167EB0E7@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 12:42:12 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kirk's soft-update integration.. References: <339.886602643@gringo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" I'm not a lawyer, but this seems like a "GPL or pay" type of license. If you look at it with detail: it's even less restricted than GPL because you can actually hide the code and do whatever you want with it if you pay the correct price. I think this should even be in the generic boot floppy, the problem would be isolating the "special licensed" files, similarly to what is done with GNU code. Did I read something wrong here? Pedro. Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > As long as you can make a "binary weapon" out of this, where we > incorporate only those non-poison-pilled portions into FreeBSD (just > as OpenBSD has done) and leave it up to the user to add the specially > licenced files, I don't see a problem. In fact, I'd really LIKE to > see this happen so that those who just want to play with the soft > update code and have no commercial aspirations can do so. Heck, > even the commercial folks can play, they'll just have to line up > and pay Kirk like you guys did. ;) > > Jordan