From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 13 04:20:26 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id EAA12893 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 04:20:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id EAA12802 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 04:19:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA03409; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 13:18:45 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA21373; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:52:11 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id KAA17368; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:18:31 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612130918.KAA17368@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Novell offers free NDS, just a thought... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:18:30 +0100 (MET) Cc: DARREND@novell.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612130258.NAA09713@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Dec 13, 96 01:28:42 pm" 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+ PL17 (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 Michael Smith wrote: > Has anyone followed through on this? The source is obviously not > freely available to the public, but I think that the FreeBSD Project > counts as an 'industry-leading vendor' in one way or another. 8) But as long as the code cannot be redistributed freely, we cannot include their stuff into the base system. Of course, somebody could write and maintain third-party software, that can be made available as a port. -- 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. ;-)