Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 02:03:06 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: dmaddox@scsn.net Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The BSD License Message-ID: <199801300203.CAA26796@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:20:19 EST." <19980129202019.32143@scsn.net>
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> Ok, at this point, I think I have asked the wrong question. It seems
> to me that the important question wrt STAC is 'What are licensing terms
> acceptable to the FreeBSD core team for software included in the base
> distribution?', not 'What is the meaning and intent of the BSD license?'.
>
> Core team members are cordially invited to address this issue, if you
> will...
I'm not sure that this is the correct question either.
The rfc seems to indicate to me that they are not willing to give
their software away without at least an NDA. That in itself is not a
problem if they're willing to tell us (or me) how to implement the
algorithm (and don't place any restrictions on that knowledge). If
they were willing to do this, I would have thought it would already
be explained in the rfc. Unfortunately it isn't.
We need to ask them if they will give us enough knowledge to
implement STAC compression *without* an NDA, without any licensing
requirements and so that the resulting code can be distributed with
FreeBSD for the world to see and use without restriction on that
usage. This `knowledge' may be in source code form already or it
may be a spec....
Feel free to give 'em my name, although I'm no expert on copyrights.
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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