From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 11:52:51 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA00567 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 11:52:51 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA00561 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 11:52:50 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA26296; Wed, 10 May 95 12:46:11 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505101846.AA26296@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: A question of downloading device drivers To: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Wed, 10 May 95 12:46:10 MDT Cc: davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505101819.LAA19749@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at May 10, 95 11:19:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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. But mom, Billy did it, why can't I? 8-) 8-). That's an argument *against* the other code, not *for* the microcode. 8-P. Note that I am *not* condemning the Adaptec code; by definition, anything that works is better than anything that doesn't (that was the point I attempted to make comparing licensing and the ability to boot at all). On a related note, I wonder if you could have someone cede their rights to source under GPL as part of a license for an agregated work... that would allow binaries with GPL drivers without the other GPL baggage in making them available for FTP. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.