From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 16 23: 1:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (draco.over-yonder.net [198.78.58.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2462037B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:01:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gh@over-yonder.net) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 1012) id BF2E462D0B; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:01:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:01:40 -0500 From: GH To: m unnikrishnan Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Free BSD OS required Message-ID: <20010717010140.D21416@over-yonder.net> References: <000601c10abe$b951e2e0$eb8209ca@rukmini> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000601c10abe$b951e2e0$eb8209ca@rukmini>; from rukmini@ip.eth.net on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:32:46PM +0530 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:32:46PM +0530, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > Respected Sir/Madam > [...] > This will be an effort to integrate driver development and deployment across the UNIX's and standardise driver development at the same time to keep it as simple as possible. The framework will incorporate scripting and/or GUI based frontends and will hence aim at simplicity and functionality. The end result will be released as an Open Source product probably under the GNU Public Licence wherein all of the programmers can contribute and enhance the utility and robustness of the project. I beg you to do me a personal favor and use the BSD license. The essence of open source remains and the code is more free than under the GPL. I beg you. [...] > Mahesh K Unnikrishnan > gh -- > What, no one sings along with Ricky Martin anymore? My kid sister does (but then, she prefers pico to vi ...) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian, alt.sysadmin.recovery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message