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Date:      Sat, 05 Sep 1998 22:01:31 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: 3.0 enters BETA status in 12 days! 
Message-ID:  <13773.905025691@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Sep 1998 14:37:17 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809051433100.21019-100000@picnic.mat.net> 

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>I just checked Kirk's posts about it, and Andre falls into a hole
>between where Kirk did and didn't specify.
>
>He said private, non-coomercial was free.
>
>He said companies that package it and sell it embedded should pay, and
>that included ISPs, but there the example was ISPs who put a machine at
>a customer's site.
>
>As far as ISPs using it themselves, it's unclear.  Kirk gave an example
>of someone at work using on their workstation, and he said that was
>free.  I'd guess Eivind's right, you'd have to check it with Kirk
>McKusick.

But if an ISP deploys it on all their servers it is not free.

Kirks rates for such cases are very reasonable.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

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