Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:37:28 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: perhaps@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: opsys@mail.webspan.net, bkogawa@primenet.com, owensc@enc.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is NCI's "NC Server Suite" FreeBSD-based? Message-ID: <199711151837.NAA04304@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199711151431.PAA00591@bitbox.follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Nov 15, 97 03:31:14 pm"
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Eivind Eklund said: > > > > On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > > > > > > > > Well, one of Free/Net/OpenBSD, at least, and not BSDi, and with the > > > reference to FreeBSD, it'd have to be the leading candidate. > > > > It is actually FreeBSD. All you have to do is call their supplier DLT and > > ask them if it's FreeBSD and they usually say "I'm not sure but I know it > > is BSD based hold on let me check... " And they come back and "Yes it is > > in fact FreeBSD" > > > > Just ask em there more than happy to tell you :) > > They should actually tell up front, according to the BSD license... > It doesn't really say that. It isn't even advertised by NCI, that it is any kind of U**X clone (that I know of.) Additionally, all of the copyright notices and necessary source code is reproduced on the distributions (per GPL as needed), and necessary copyright notices are reproduced on the docs. I helped review the license terms to make sure of compliance (I happen to be very picky about compliance with license terms), but did not have a project responsibilty. What ended up on the distribution MIGHT HAVE differed from my wishes, but I don't think that is so. BTW, major components of NC/OS are derived from FreeBSD-2.2.2 with updates and patches and/or older versions of NetBSD, but there is alot more stuff on the distribution than just an OS. I personally created the .tar.gz of the GPLed source code distribution, and it is unmodified from the GPLed portions of the FreeBSD sources. If there are specific violations of the license terms on the distributions, I would appreciate feedback, so that I can make sure that appropriate parties will be notified, and the error will be corrected, ASAP. I personally don't like to see violations of license terms!!! It is best to fix problems, before they get out-of-hand. It is likely that most distributions that people have seen outside of NCI are beta or pre-production copies, anyway. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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