From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 17:03:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA05051 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 17:03:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA05046 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 17:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA15710; Wed, 15 May 1996 17:00:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605160000.RAA15710@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: VoxWare 3.5? To: langfod@dihelix.com (David Langford) Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 17:00:38 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, edmond@UWYO.EDU, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605152355.NAA20648@caliban.dihelix.com> from "David Langford" at May 15, 96 01:55:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> I have heard VoxWare 3.5 has been released, where even the -current > >> versions only have v3.0. I have tried to find v3.5 through all the search > >> engines on the net, but so far, no deal. > > > >VoxWare changed its licensing. Now it is impossible to distribute > >kernel binaries including the new drivers. This was discussed on the > >-hackers and -cutrrent lists at some length. > > Me curious. What is the Linux community doing about this? > I see mention of them using the new software but I assume > the license really goes against the GPL.... I believe the license is not incompatible with GPL. Since FreeBSD is, that's why *we* can't distribute binary kernels. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.