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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:03:29 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), peter@bonkers.taronga.com, gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: SVNET Meeting? 
Message-ID:  <199503190803.AAA25053@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Mar 1995 23:43:13 PST." <199503190743.XAA22721@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> 

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>> 
>> >>    organization could sell binary distributions of.  Even though the
>> >>    GPL is restrictive, FreeBSD differs from NetBSD in distributing 
>> >>    GPLd portions of the kernel.
>> 
>> >Are they linked into the kernel on any of the kernels distributed from
>> >Freefall? If they are, then that has the effect of putting the kernel
>> >under GPL. You need to be *very* careful about this.
>> 
>> "Only" the ahc driver in the GENERIC kernel.

Only the firmware used by the ahc driver (a single generated .h file).

>Oh shit, this means we should probably not ship the ahc linked into
>the GENERIC kernel :-(.

If it is going to be killed, we need to come up with an alternate
method for folks with these cards to install.  I sent a query about
the copyright (again) to the author last week, but I haven't heard
back yet.  I haven't gotten a straight answer out of him yet. :-(

>
>
>-- 
>Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
>Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD

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Justin T. Gibbs
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