From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 29 17:46:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09735 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:46:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dragon.ham.muohio.edu (howardjp@dragon.ham.muohio.edu [134.53.147.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09705 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:45:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from howardjp@dragon.ham.muohio.edu) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by dragon.ham.muohio.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA08661; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:00:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:00:13 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Howard To: Mike Smith cc: dmaddox@scsn.net, Greg Lehey , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The BSD License In-Reply-To: <199801300127.LAA00560@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > - If source code is not available and freely redistributable, it is > impossible for it to be included in the FreeBSD codebase. (This is > really a no-brainer). Hello, I've been lurking around this mailing list for a spell now and recently considered this question myself. I am confused by the above statement. Was Sun Microsystems legally bound to (a) make the source to SunOS available and (b) make the source code available for free? What about others like DEC and Ultrix or OSF/1 or NeXT and NeXTStep? Jamie