From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 26 00:29:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA03999 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 00:29:53 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA03992; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 00:29:52 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA02991; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 09:30:35 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199503260830.JAA02991@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 08:30:35 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hasty@star-gate.com, fbsd@clem.systemsix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <3769.796206032@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 26, 95 00:20:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1088 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.