Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:55:17 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Message-ID: <20000313235517.A33142@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <v04220810b4f30063ef1e@[195.238.24.123]>; from Brad Knowles on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:38:58PM %2B0100 References: <4.2.2.20000313103859.0410fe30@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312160425.00b16e80@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.20.0003112034290.431-100000@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <4.2.2.20000312122651.00b1e880@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312144558.04190e80@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312160425.00b16e80@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313103859.0410fe30@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313111904.041e0c00@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313131120.041d91f0@localhost> <v04220810b4f30063ef1e@[195.238.24.123]>
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Brad,
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:38:58PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> Speaking as the FreeBSD Release Engineer, and as a member of the
> FreeBSD Core Team, I suspect that Jordan's statement is pretty much
> final. Anybody who wants to ship something with the FreeBSD
> trademark associated with it will need to include at the very least
> the same four standard ISO images that he produces and makes
> available for anyone who wants to download them and burn them with a
> writer.
A small point. To the best of my knowledge, 3 of the 4 ISO images
are not made available.
The first one is. Discs 2 thru 4 are not -- they are part of the Walnut
Creek value add. If you want 'em, you've got to pay for 'em.
And to the wider point -- FreeBSD isn't an ISO image. I actually
wouldn't mind seeing a hard and fast definition of what FreeBSD is.
Is it the contents of /usr/src/ (and the associated CVS repository?).
If so, that means that the ports tree and the docs are "third party
addons". Which doesn't sound quite right -- then again, the ports tree
is certainly not a core part of the OS, and neither (with my Doc. Proj.
Manager hat on) is /usr/doc.
Certainly, if someone were to do
# cd /usr/src/release && make NODOC=YES NOPORTS=YES release
and try and sell the resulting CDs, I think they'd have every right to
call the result FreeBSD.
I also think that if someone were to do the above, and (f'rinstance)
offered a different installer (by way of 2 different kern and mfsroot
floppy images) they'd also be completely within their rights to call the
result FreeBSD.
If someone were to sell a binary only version, where the binaries had
been compiled with Tendra instead of gcc, that's also FreeBSD.
Before you can start talking about whether can call something FreeBSD,
you need to have a good grasp of what FreeBSD is in the first place.
N
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