From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 25 23:00:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA11644 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 23:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA11639 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 23:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA26674; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 22:54:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604260554.WAA26674@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: USS Lite To: smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu (Sujal Patel) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 22:54:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Sujal Patel" at Apr 25, 96 11:27:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] 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 > > > It appears Hannu Savolainen has `somewhat' changed his copywrite on > > > USS Lite. It now says: > > > > Otherwise it will be impossible to distribute binaraies (the default > > sound code should operate without needing to recompile the kernel, > > IMO, so binaries are an absolute necessity -- GPL restrictions on > > distributed binaries preclude distributing binaraies that are not > > wholly GPL). > > So you're saying that "technically", Hannu hasn't changed his license > agreement- Just reworded it?? Damn, now we've gone from a one screen > licence to a 6 page licence-- I'm so confused :) Not at all. You could put the uncompiled drivers on a comercial CDROM -- you couldn't do that before, I think. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.