Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 11:52:19 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: perhaps@yes.no (Eivind Eklund), opsys@mail.webspan.net, bkogawa@primenet.com, owensc@enc.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is NCI's "NC Server Suite" FreeBSD-based? Message-ID: <199711151952.LAA04491@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:37:28 EST." <199711151837.NAA04304@dyson.iquest.net>
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Hmm... I think what we would like to see clearly is that FreeBSD is being used on the NCs. Also a nice http pointer from www.freebsd.org pointing out a wonderful use of FreeBSD is for NCs. Amancio > Eivind Eklund said: > > > > > > On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Well, one of Free/Net/OpenBSD, at least, and not BSDi, and with the > > > > reference to FreeBSD, it'd have to be the leading candidate. > > > > > > It is actually FreeBSD. All you have to do is call their supplier DLT and > > > ask them if it's FreeBSD and they usually say "I'm not sure but I know it > > > is BSD based hold on let me check... " And they come back and "Yes it is > > > in fact FreeBSD" > > > > > > Just ask em there more than happy to tell you :) > > > > They should actually tell up front, according to the BSD license... > > > It doesn't really say that. It isn't even advertised by NCI, that it is any kind > of U**X clone (that I know of.) Additionally, all of the copyright notices and > necessary source code is reproduced on the distributions (per GPL as needed), and > necessary copyright notices are reproduced on the docs. I helped review the license > terms to make sure of compliance (I happen to be very picky about compliance > with license terms), but did not have a project responsibilty. What ended up > on the distribution MIGHT HAVE differed from my wishes, but I don't think that > is so. BTW, major components of NC/OS are derived from FreeBSD-2.2.2 with > updates and patches and/or older versions of NetBSD, but there is alot more stuff > on the distribution than just an OS. I personally created the .tar.gz of the > GPLed source code distribution, and it is unmodified from the GPLed portions > of the FreeBSD sources. > > If there are specific violations of the license terms on the distributions, I > would appreciate feedback, so that I can make sure that appropriate parties > will be notified, and the error will be corrected, ASAP. I personally don't > like to see violations of license terms!!! It is best to fix problems, before > they get out-of-hand. > > It is likely that most distributions that people have seen outside of NCI are > beta or pre-production copies, anyway. > > -- > John > dyson@freebsd.org > jdyson@nc.com
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