Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 09:57:36 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kirk's soft-update integration.. Message-ID: <199802041757.JAA02479@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Feb 1998 12:42:12 EST." <34D8A874.167EB0E7@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
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Yeah, You miss the part where we can download the code from. While would be legalese argue about the merit, interpretation or implementation of Kirk's license , I just want at least an ftp pointer to down load soft updates for FreeBSD-current. Cheers, Amancio > 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 > >
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