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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 1995 07:43:41 -0600 (CST)
From:      Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
To:        gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Justin T. Gibbs)
Cc:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: SVNET Meeting?
Message-ID:  <199503181343.HAA17300@bonkers.taronga.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503180822.AAA18883@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Mar 18, 95 00:22:45 am

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>    "The requirement to distribute source code to 'anyone' who asks
>    for it for up to 3 years just for starters.  The goal of both 
>    groups is to provide an unencumbered system that even a comercial
>    organization could sell binary distributions of.  Even though the
>    GPL is restrictive, FreeBSD differs from NetBSD in distributing 
>    GPLd portions of the kernel.

Are they linked into the kernel on any of the kernels distributed from
Freefall? If they are, then that has the effect of putting the kernel
under GPL. You need to be *very* careful about this.



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