From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <006201c08ae9$ca2354a0$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20010130145953Z114466-4593+91@trolltech.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Running Version 2 along with Version 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:23:48 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 54a9c9d4-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: Mike Acar > > You need a 2nd edition license to get the SUN material, and once you've > > got it you can't expect any work based on it to be included in updates to the > > 3rd edition because we don't have the rights to release it that way. > > Meaning that the most we could do with the 2nd edition code would be look it > over before reimplementing its functionality for the 3rd edition, and even that > I think I'd be somewhat hesitant to do; getting a SPARC booting but being > unable to release the code seems a bit of a waste. err, if you had a 2nd ed license you couldn't release the code under the terms of the 3rd ed licence. i'm not even sure that 'looking' at the code would wouldn't taint a release to a 3rd ed site. now, if you did a 3rd ed port to the sparc then i would imagine you could release this work. however, i am not a lawyer. i think the problem is that you have to get proprietary info out of Sun and that would kill any chance of a release. i believe the phrase 'like pulling teeth' was used in reference to getting certain information from certain vendors.