From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Smith To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Running Version 2 along with Version 3 In-Reply-To: <006201c08ae9$ca2354a0$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:43:17 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 54af7ec4-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 >> > 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. > > -- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL X - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS / \