From: Christian Smith <csmith@micromuse.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Running Version 2 along with Version 3
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:43:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101301841341.1807-100000@erol> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006201c08ae9$ca2354a0$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr>
Surely the relevent info could be gleaned from {Net|Open}BSD, without any
license problems?
I didn't realise that the SUN and SGI code wasn't released. I was rather
looking forward to getting an IPX and an Indigo running with 3rd edition.
Christian
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Boyd Roberts wrote:
>From: Mike Acar <mike@trolltech.com>
>> > 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.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-30 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-30 14:30 rob pike
2001-01-30 14:59 ` Mike Acar
2001-01-30 18:23 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-30 18:42 ` Mike Acar
2001-01-30 18:43 ` Christian Smith [this message]
2001-01-31 10:20 ` Bobby Dimmette
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-31 15:07 rob pike
2001-01-30 21:41 geoff
2001-01-30 19:24 forsyth
2001-01-30 10:51 forsyth
2001-01-30 14:23 ` Mike Acar
2001-01-29 19:35 rob pike
2000-06-20 14:51 presotto
2001-01-29 18:30 ` splite
2001-01-29 18:52 ` Mike Acar
2001-01-29 19:29 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-06-20 13:58 Bill Gunshannon
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