From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 24 16:40:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A0D37B719 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:40:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA06132; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:41:23 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010324194115.02732960@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:58:00 -0500 To: Will Andrews From: Dennis Subject: Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2. Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010324161906.M5821@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20010324155127.03daa8a0@mail.etinc.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20010324150424.03bc3900@mail.etinc.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20010324142928.03a8b9d0@mail.etinc.com> <200103241731.SAA49447@info.iet.unipi.it> <5.0.0.25.0.20010324142928.03a8b9d0@mail.etinc.com> <20010324144844.K5821@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> <5.0.0.25.0.20010324150424.03bc3900@mail.etinc.com> <20010324151237.L5821@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> <5.0.0.25.0.20010324155127.03daa8a0@mail.etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:19 PM 03/24/2001, Will Andrews wrote: >On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:12:34PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > > For your info, Bub, what makes the BSD license attractive is its usability > > by commercial vendors, so maybe you should go play in Linuxland because > > you are the one in the wrong camp, not me. the ability to take code, > fix it > > and incorporate it into a product WITHOUT giving back source is the ENTIRE > > CONCEPT of the BSD license. > >Obviously so, but it serves no point to complain about an opensource >driver's problem on an opensource list if you're going to fix it in your >proprietary tree, say you did so, and not pass it on. Since nobody else >gets to see your "fix", it won't solve a thing, for you or FreeBSD. Its not a "proprietary tree". I dont have time to clean it up and submit patches. "hackers" doesnt imply "open-souce". This is a "general technical discussion" list, according to freebsd.org. db To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message