Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:31:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Message-ID: <19980226083101.52440@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <34f8c398.9396678@mail.cetlink.net>; from John Kelly on Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 07:21:36AM %2B0000 References: <15135.888386736@time.cdrom.com> <34f8c398.9396678@mail.cetlink.net>
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On Wed, 25 February 1998 at 7:21:36 +0000, John Kelly wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:05:36 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" > <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote: > >>> I guess the Linux folks had a different viewpoint. >> >> More likely they were simply lucky enough to manage to find someone >> with both the equipment and the wherewithall to do the work involved. > >> I wasn't attempting to turn this into an ongoing debate. Someone also >> sent me private mail also saying "gee, thanks a lot for shooting down >> our token ring porting effort, you knob!" > >> folks who claimed to be doing the same work ... vanished into thin air. > > How hard can it be to take the work done for Linux and scrub the GPL > out and BSD-ify it? What a waste of time. > You can't copy code verbatim without plagiarism but all the ideas > and algorithms can be freely extracted and "re-written." That's > what's so great about freed software. Of course you can copy the code verbatim without plagiarism. All you have to do is abide by the GPL. There's plenty of GPL code in the source tree already. All you need to do is isolate it from other code :-) Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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