Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 11:19:31 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A question of downloading device drivers Message-ID: <199505101819.LAA19749@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 1995 10:54:20 MDT." <9505101654.AA25785@cs.weber.edu>
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>> >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. > >Well, there went that argument. 8-). > >How about replacing it with the argument that the code can't be upgraded >without rebuilding the kernel? Neither can any other SCSI driver in the kernel. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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