From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 10 19:24:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA24643 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 19:24:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from mother.sneaker.net.au (akm@mother.sneaker.net.au [203.30.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA24634; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 19:24:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akm@mother.sneaker.net.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mother.sneaker.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA01538; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 12:31:57 GMT From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199710111231.MAA01538@mother.sneaker.net.au> Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 12:31:57 +0000 () Cc: freebsd-emulation@freefall.FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199710101754.HAA17182@pegasus.com> from "Richard Foulk" at Oct 10, 97 07:54:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk +-----[ Richard Foulk ]------------------------------ | | If Linux software doesn't run, for any reason, then the emulator has failed. Or the software is poorly written, relies on bugs or undocumented features. I can think of things that won't run on consecutive versions of the operating system it was written for, this is under various platforms. I can understand why uname might be used to build/configure software, but, I don't understand why you would use it to licence your software. There are better ways. -- ,-_|\ SneakerNet | Andrew Milton | GSM: +61(41)6 022 411 / \ P.O. Box 154 | akm@sneaker.net.au | Fax: +61(2) 9746 8233 \_,-._/ N Strathfield +--+----------------------+---+ Ph: +61(2) 9746 8233 v NSW 2137 | Low cost Internet Solutions |