Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:26:32 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: mathezer@newera.ab.ca (Stephen Mathezer) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Licensing and liability issues for commercial development Message-ID: <199601240356.OAA25549@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960123105414.3268A-100000@feisal.newera.ab.ca> from "Stephen Mathezer" at Jan 23, 96 11:01:22 am
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Stephen Mathezer stands accused of saying: > > What if we write software to back up a FreeBSD machine and it gets lost > due to a FreeBSD bug? How can we cover our butts in this situation? Hmm, what gets lost? The software or the backup? > The Gcc license stipulates that for software compiled with gcc, object > must be made freely available. We don't really want to do that. Plus, > what happens if gcc tightens the license further? I'm quite certain that the Gcc license does _NOT_ stipulate that. If it _does_, dBase for Unix is free software 8) > Basically I'm just curious as to how people out there handle these > issues because we are getting more and more requests to support the free > Unices and are currently refusing them all because of the above > concerns. This is a shame because we use our product in house on FreeBSD > machines and I personally am a fan and run FreeBSD at home but we can't > see a way to support it commercially. I must admit I can't see your problem there. You may want to support a given set of standard releases of FreeBSD, ie. you state that your software is known to work and is supported for versions a,b and c and if a user complains that it doesn't work under version d then you point them at the conspicuous message in your documentation/promo lit that points this out. This is the only issue that I could see as a problem. > -Steve -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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