Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 00:18:19 -0800 From: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Gary Kendall <gdk@ccomp.inode.COM>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? Message-ID: <199711040818.AAA15207@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org>
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"JKH" == Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: > What corporations? You have a list of all parties who might > conceivably have a trademark infringement problem with us? Are you > willing to do the work of tracking down and contacting all of these > people? In that case, what is compress still doing in FreeBSD? Are you -sure- there are no non-games trademarked programs in the source? How about patented algorithms? > If not, I'm still going to go for "remove the games" as the only > *effective* solution since pie-in-the-sky suggestions like yours > avail us naught. I think you are being heavy handed and pessimistic. I -like- rogue and larn, and I don't think I'm alone. Why not just remove boggle? Or, go ahead and let lawyers dictate the code you write. After all, they are the ones you must serve, eh? ------ Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet Learn from the mistakes of others. You don't have time to make them all yourself.
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