From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 26 08:25:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA19731 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 08:25:57 -0800 Received: from cybernetics.net (jeffh@server0.cybernetics.net [198.80.48.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA19725 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 08:25:55 -0800 Received: by cybernetics.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06579; Sun, 26 Mar 95 11:25:44 EST Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 11:25:42 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Paul Richards , Amancio Hasty , fbsd@clem.systemsix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. In-Reply-To: <3769.796206032@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 26 Mar 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I really don't see what the big beef about running the BSDI binary > is - it works FINE! But we can't redistribute it ourselves in any I agree. > case. I asked, it's totally forbidden and I got the feeling that > they were warming up their lawyer just from my ASKING about it.. > There was certainly nothing ambiguous about their reply! ("NO! UNDER > NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU TO DISTRIBUTE NETSCAPE IN ANY FORM!!"). So, being the intelligent people that we are, what should we do? Hrmm, I have an idea! In our install procedure, we make Netscape a package and have it go out and ftp it off the net. :-) We didn't distribute it, we just provided the user with a one-keystroke way to get it. :-) > Jordan Jeff -- Jeff Hoffman -- jeffh@cybernetics.net ------------------------------------- "A man facing the light looks not into sorrow, but to to the future...always." WWW: http://www.cybernetics.net/users/jeffh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP Public Key available on request.