From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 15 3:19:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA9737B426; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 03:18:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0048.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.48] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16FCpr-0005LQ-00; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 03:18:31 -0800 Message-ID: <3C1B3189.CD0B1D1A@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 03:18:33 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a new FS to FreeBSD References: <20011214141518.E73243@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <3C1A09BB.DEBCB854@mindspring.com> <20011215102442.E85108@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C1B0C44.E5A108A4@mindspring.com> <20011215193226.J87600@monorchid.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > Unfortunately, it's still copyrighted. You need an SCO license; want > to go and get one of them? It doesn't cost anything, but I can't give > the software to anybody who hasn't agreed to the conditions. 8.4(b) says you can't give it to anyone, even if they do have the license, unless you contact Caldera first, and then maintain (in perpeturity) a list of the sources made available. I think we are screwed by section 2.1(d) anyway: Commercial use by LICENSEE of SOURCE CODE PRODUCTS or of any result, enhancement or modification associated with the use of SOURCE CODE PRODUCTS under this AGREEMENT is not permitted. Basically, I couldn't get an article out of it because I could't disclose it to anyone but a licensesee, and only a licensee could use the code, and I couldn't give source to the licensee without the permission of Caldera, and once they had the code, they could not use it for anything commercial unless they negotiated a seperate commercial use license. Frankly, if you want to provide small disk images (preferrably, very small, not multimegabyte) as I've described are needed anyway, along with a description of the what's on the images, along with such layout information as you feel comfortable providing, I'd pretty much rather reverse engineer the stuff than get a Caldera license. At least that way, I can get an article out of doing the thing. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message