Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 09:20:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: eischen@vigrid.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Copyright question Message-ID: <199605091320.JAA26835@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <25439.831594421@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 8, 96 03:27:01 pm
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(...) > But I'd also like to suggest that we perhaps attack this problem from > a different angle. > > What is Condor trying to achieve here? Protection of sales, right? > More to the point, they'd like to sell this board to FreeBSD users as > a consequence of having this driver in FreeBSD by default, assuming > that they might be less willing to do so otherwise. The "protection > of sales" issue is also actually a secondary one since, up to this > point, there _are_ no sales to protect. So far, so good. This is a good point. Anyone working with MIL1553 on FreeBSD probably has the budget to buy the Condor board over another board, and Condor's cooperation will, I bet, ensure 95% of the "market" for 1553 boards on *BSD. Though I haven't looked at the Condor board, I'm sure it is built out of off the shelf 1553 support parts and porting the driver to another board is probably a no-brainer. It is probably little more than a 1553 chip on the ISA bus. As Condor has supplied their DOS driver to Dan, unrestricted distribution puts them in the position of potentially bootstrapping other vendor products. Back to my previous point: Put Condor specific code in a single file, keep generic 1553 interfaces in an unrestricted file, ask nicely for release under the BSD copyright, but don't be surprised when they decline. -- Temporarily via "hdalog@zipnet.net"... Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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