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To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
cc: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Justin T. Gibbs),
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Subject: Re: A question of downloading device drivers 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 19:29:55 -0700
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>> >This was a conscious choice for the AIC7770 support.  The POST on the
>> 
>> A conscious choice on the part of Adaptec or the developer?
>
>The developer.  Note I did *not* say "a bad choice"... I render no
>judgment other than to note that the static inclusion of that code
>in binary form puts kernels distributed with it under obligation
>to the GPL as long as it remains GPL'ed code.  For the CDROM
>distribution, this isn't a problem, but FTP code could be.

   The code is not GPL'd. The original author of the sequencer code has
released it under a Berkeley-style copyright.

-DG