From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 22 21:46:23 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA18355 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 21:46:23 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA18343 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 21:46:21 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.3) id AAA00249; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 00:46:37 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199507230446.AAA00249@hda.com> Subject: Re: Support charges ( was Re: SUP target for -STABLE...) To: hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 00:46:35 -0400 (EDT) Cc: nate@sneezy.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507220845.LAA02660@shadows.cs.hut.fi> from "Heikki Suonsivu" at Jul 22, 95 11:45:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1026 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Heikki Suonsivu writes: > > > > I'm happy to pay for *actual* support which I receive, but my feel on this > > is that I am not going to pay for a staffer full-time if the work that he or > > she produces goes back to *everyone*. > > Wow, I hope I'm parsing this in-correctly, but my impression is that > *if* you pay for support, you don't want the fixes to go to anyone else. > > I'm only willing to pay for support if the fixes are passed to everyone. > This also includes NetBSD folks in here, I won't support anything which > takes *BSD* further apart. (This should be on non-existent -policy list...) I expect that to get support from the FreeBSD community anything that gets done should be in the spirit of the BSD style copyright. This would mean that fixes would be available to the NetBSD folk but not folded in and tested. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267