Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 08:30:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hasty@star-gate.com, fbsd@clem.systemsix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. Message-ID: <199503260830.JAA02991@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3769.796206032@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 26, 95 00:20:32 am
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said
>
> > I guess we could get them to allow us to ship the BSDI binary in
> > the suitable area of ports if we ask them nicely but that's not
> > really what we want.
>
> I really don't see what the big beef about running the BSDI binary
> is - it works FINE! But we can't redistribute it ourselves in any
> case. I asked, it's totally forbidden and I got the feeling that
> they were warming up their lawyer just from my ASKING about it..
> There was certainly nothing ambiguous about their reply! ("NO! UNDER
> NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU TO DISTRIBUTE NETSCAPE IN ANY FORM!!").
The big beef is that it would be nice if we could ship a decent
client with FreeBSD. We need a good viewer for our docs and lynx just
isn't that nice.
Hopefully Amancio can find that non-motif version of Mosaic for us....
--
Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member.
Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/
Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home)
Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.
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