Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 00:13:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: eischen@pcnet.com (Daniel M. Eischen) Subject: Re: Copyright question Message-ID: <199605082213.AAA16196@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <3190B258.41C67EA6@pcnet.com> from "Daniel M. Eischen" at "May 8, 96 10:40:24 am"
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As Daniel M. Eischen wrote: > o It's a MIL-STD-1553 driver and will have limited use. Can > we still have it included in the source tree? Just out of curiosity: what is MIL-STD-1553? > o How does the addition of 4th condition in the copyright > affect any inclusion in FreeBSD? Is it too restrictive? > /* > * Driver for the MIL-STD-1553B interface boards manufactured by > * Condor Engineering, Inc. > * 4. This code is only licensed for use with Condor Engineering, Inc. > * interface hardware. I think this is: * redundant -- the driver is built for a Condor Eng. board, so it's certainly unusable with a BusLogic SCSI adapter or a 3Com ethernet card :) * impractical -- if we are allowed to ship the driver, but its actual *usage* is restricted, who will ever care for the restriction? (Anyway, i don't think it really restricts redistribution of the source and/or binary code, so pending objections from more knowledgable people, i think it's okay.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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