Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:14:31 -0600 (CST) From: Jason Young <doogie@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Softupdates - Kirk's response Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980310191056.16677A-100000@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com> In-Reply-To: <34EE3060.4487EB71@whistle.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I'm sending this official response to the current list as it is germane to its inclusion or exclusion from -CURRENT, and apparently many people here are interested. If someone wants to forward it to -chat that would be nice but I'm not on that list. - ----- My "official" response, which you are welcome to post to the mailing list is this: Companies that wish to incorporate the soft update code into systems that will be resold for profit are required to get a license. Generally, the license will require the payment of a one-time fee that covers use of the code by that company in all their products. It does not allow them to sell the soft update code by itself, only to incorporate it into their own products. The one-time fee is negotiated based on the importance of the code to the functioning of the product and the expected size of the market for the product. For-profit companies that wish to use the soft update code in their day-to-day commercial operations but are not distributing it to their customers (for example, ISP's using it in their web servers, ftp archives, etc.) are requested but not required to pay a one-time fee. The fee revenue will be used to support the continued development and support of the soft update code (for example fsck-less rebooting and live dumps). Those companies that pay the one-time fee will receive notification of any offical bug fixes and enhancements as they are made. Requests for information about licensing should be sent to: mckusick@mckusick.com or Marshall Kirk McKusick 1614 Oxford Street Berkeley, CA 94709-1608 - ----- Jason Young ANET Chief Network Engineer "Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock phasers on the Heffalump, Piglet, meet me in transporter room three." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBNQXleaInE6ybC66VAQH0VgL/S68BAaOTQFTcA19KW/9sJSxdpXjX1Avv EvytNz/wa75KrAw9DZ34fX6JaKlfMSoJAKO6CWbDum9wv/6v5fFme20zxp5zlfpR tMuYZbdi7cVQnUZ2NTwmcDQYuDrrObIb =Afmb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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