Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 05:21:06 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Someone needs to re-develop "Softupdates" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980309050244.257C-100000@quark.ChrisBowman.com> In-Reply-To: <199803090752.XAA27962@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > >The intent of Kirk is to allow hackers or plain users of FreeBSD to >use soft updates any commercial entity wishing to profit from it >must first strike a deal with Kirk. Is that simple and we have >an e-mail from Kirk to that effect. If you are a commercial >entity and wish clarification take it up with Kirk and for >the rest us (hackers) the code is free to use. It is nice of Kirk to tell us his intent, but someone who knows him ought to tell him that the liscense terms accompanying his copyright doesn't say what he wants. Item 4 in same applies ONLY in the case of redistribution. Thus use for commercial purposes is not restricted, only REDISTRIBUTION is restricted. If your commercial use does not require redistribution then item 4 doesn't even apply to you, and provided you meet terms 1 through 3 you are in complience with his liscense as published with the copyright notice. Conversely if your purpose does require redistribution then commercial or not you must provide source as descirbed in term 4. FreeBSD meets this criterion and thus this file could be distributed on the CD at the descretion of core. Now, Kirk may distribute the code in parrallel under a different set of liscense terms (the ones he enumerates in his emails) but unless Kirk speciffically revokes his liscense (can he even do that in the absense of specific terms allowing this in liscense, I think so) published in the copyrights available at: http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/softdep.copyrights.txt it is perfectly permissable for a person to use the terms of the liscense found in the URL above. --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com <A HREF="http://www.ChrisBowman.com">My home page</A> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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