From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 14:01:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05825 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:01:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05763 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:01:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA11648; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:31:02 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA01337; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:31:01 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980226083101.52440@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:31:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: John Kelly , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? References: <15135.888386736@time.cdrom.com> <34f8c398.9396678@mail.cetlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <34f8c398.9396678@mail.cetlink.net>; from John Kelly on Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 07:21:36AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 February 1998 at 7:21:36 +0000, John Kelly wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:05:36 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" > wrote: > >>> I guess the Linux folks had a different viewpoint. >> >> More likely they were simply lucky enough to manage to find someone >> with both the equipment and the wherewithall to do the work involved. > >> I wasn't attempting to turn this into an ongoing debate. Someone also >> sent me private mail also saying "gee, thanks a lot for shooting down >> our token ring porting effort, you knob!" > >> folks who claimed to be doing the same work ... vanished into thin air. > > How hard can it be to take the work done for Linux and scrub the GPL > out and BSD-ify it? What a waste of time. > You can't copy code verbatim without plagiarism but all the ideas > and algorithms can be freely extracted and "re-written." That's > what's so great about freed software. Of course you can copy the code verbatim without plagiarism. All you have to do is abide by the GPL. There's plenty of GPL code in the source tree already. All you need to do is isolate it from other code :-) Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message