Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:58:43 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, DARREND@novell.com Subject: Re: Novell offers free NDS, just a thought... Message-ID: <199612140928.TAA15058@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199612130918.KAA17368@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Dec 13, 96 10:18:30 am"
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J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > 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. Depends on the degree of sophistry we're willing to undertake. You could argue that anyone with the FreeBSD source code is effectively a developer 8) The "right" way is of course to approach Novell and see if they'd be willing to play things our way. Darren D.? > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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