From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 25 16:37:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23773 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:37:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23644 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA21756; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:08:05 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980626090805.Y356@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:08:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Eivind Eklund , dyson@iquest.net, David Kelly Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 (was: Here is what I promised :-)) References: <199806230204.VAA10715@nospam.hiwaay.net> <199806231756.MAA19966@dyson.iquest.net> <19980624034151.12579@follo.net> <19980625182109.D356@freebie.lemis.com> <19980625111122.33234@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980625111122.33234@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 11:11:22AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 25 June 1998 at 11:11:22 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 06:21:09PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> John says categorically "no" to it being called FreeBSD 4.0. This >>> isn't something I'd do - this is an open option, but one which I don't >>> consider too likely. >> >> I would consider it rude in the extreme to use somebody else's name >> for your new product. I can understand why John is so emphatic. The >> software may be free, but the name has certain bindings. > > You're misunderstanding me, I think. I'm saying that the software > will be available for FreeBSD to adopt if the FreeBSD project at some > time consider it a better solution than continuing from the > then-present FreeBSD kernel codebase (or they can adopt core parts > of the G2 kernel and re-intergrate the non-core parts against that, or > whatever) then that is an option that will be available. Indeed, that's not what I understood. I don't have any problem with what you describe now. > I'm _not_ suggesting that the "G2 project" will call G2 "FreeBSD 4.0". > What is called "FreeBSD x.x" is up to The FreeBSD Project and FreeBSD, > Inc (which one would hope will stay in synch on the matter :-) Right. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message