From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 7 14:54:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA12901 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 14:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA12881 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 14:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA04693; Tue, 7 May 1996 23:50:50 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA21086; Tue, 7 May 1996 23:50:50 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA11814; Tue, 7 May 1996 23:46:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605072146.XAA11814@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: [Forwarded e-mail from Alexander O. Yuriev] To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 23:46:29 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9605072125.AA09546@antares.aero.org> from Mike O'Brien at "May 7, 96 02:25:38 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mike O'Brien wrote: > > This reminds me: one of Kirk McKusick's policies in the copyright of > > the daemon is that its use does not have to contradict ``common sense > > of good taste''. > > Let me get persnickety here. McKusick owns HIS daemon. He doesn't > own THE daemon. Yep, but since it's copyrighted, he rules what happens to anything that closely resembles HIS daemon. After all, that's what copyrights are for (the true ones, not this abuse for software). Anyway, his copyright rules are really few and acceptable, so anybody would do some good in keeping in line with them. (He's only been copyrighting it to protect it from [commercial] abuse, basically.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)