Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 12:21:49 -0500 (EST) From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@wam.umd.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960330121640.201B-100000@xi.dorm.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <5777.828201971@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Sorry, but the copyright on this is simply egregious and I hardly wish to > encourage that kind of double-edged copyright in our source tree. The > source is free but any binary I make I can't give to another person? > Geeze, talk about the GPL's evil twin! Whatever happened to "give the > person a binary AND the source" as reasonable conditions? >From what I understand from Hannu's Web Page, USS is now a commerical product, and Hannu is payed by the company that makes USS. I'm sure that Hannu is forced to use this licence agreement, so that users that don't like to "compile" things will need to buy the real USS LKM version of the sound drivers (thus no binary distribution is allowed). > I will fight the inclusion of USS all the way. I'm behind you 100% on this.. We may also want to consider possible inclusion of the NetBSD Sound code, if it's USS API compatible (or can be mangled to be compatable). > Frankly, its ridiculously byzantine "brick in a velvet glove" license > makes me nauseous. You really can't blame Hannu for this though. He has to feed his kids too you know :-) Sujal
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