From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 8 15:21:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA29985 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 15:21:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA29963 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 15:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA20464; Thu, 9 May 1996 00:20:53 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA05947; Thu, 9 May 1996 00:20:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id AAA16196; Thu, 9 May 1996 00:13:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605082213.AAA16196@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Copyright question To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 00:13:29 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: eischen@pcnet.com (Daniel M. Eischen) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3190B258.41C67EA6@pcnet.com> from "Daniel M. Eischen" at "May 8, 96 10:40:24 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)