Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:14:57 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: STAC vs. the BSD License Message-ID: <199801302114.VAA05987@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jan 1998 01:18:26 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980130011536.314C-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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> On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, John Kelly wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:42:29 -0500, dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J.
> > Maddox) wrote:
> >
> > >>"the BSD license" in it's entirety?
> > >>
> > >> Yes. Basically it says:
> > >>
> > >> 1. You can use this software however you choose.
> > >> 2. Don't blame us if it breaks.
> > >> 3. Don't use our name to advertise it [I consider this a difficult
> > >> one; it conflicts with the next].
> > >> 4. Do acknowledge the use of the code.
> > >
> > >Thanks for the reply, Greg... This interpretation is pretty close to
> > >what I got out of it. So, I guess this means if I want to be able to
> > >include STAC compression into FreeBSD, then _they_ have to be willing
> > >to allow STAC to be distributed with no further restrictions than the
> > >above... Is that right?
> >
> > I don't think the STAC people will accept that.
> >
> > Nevertheless, you should still be able to implement a STAC routine
> > which would be called by PPP and PPPD. The trick will be modifying
> > PPP and PPPD to optionally call STAC when it's present on the machine,
> > without disturbing any users who don't have it on their machine.
> [...]
> I don't know if it's quite the same thing, but there is a little set of
> kernel patches and the like for Linux that provides Stacker and
> Drive/Double Space support. It's obviously under the GPL as far as I can
> tell. Even if it's not quite the same thing, it wouldn't be a bad thing
> imo to impliment.
I thought linux used the pppd sources. That'd make things *very*
easy for pppd under FreeBSD.
Maybe it's time to install Linux on one of my machines again (and
hope it stays alive during that initial ``I must have a poke around''
stage).
> Linux: The Microsoft Windows(tm) of the Unix(tm) world.
>
> - alex
>
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