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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

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