From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dugo@xs4all.nl (Jacob Goense) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 20:26:52 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] 386BSD on Bochs & Qemu... In-Reply-To: <20100426032303.GC15137@dereel.lemis.com> References: <130de1e4e4162da466b3dc04bbc53c70.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> <20100425022942.GA15137@dereel.lemis.com> <5a7c3451f8bbb8efaaa6b9c809214a55.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> <20100426032303.GC15137@dereel.lemis.com> Message-ID: <97c86725a66a6581c02553876124c880.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> On Mon, April 26, 2010 05:23 "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" wrote: > OK, I mounted the CD-ROM and looked for copyright statements. The > only one I found was /COPYRGHT.TXT, a modified 8 paragraph BSD license > with \r\n line delimiters, attached. > > Arguably it only applies to the OS sources, but it's the only license > I can see. Indeed, it can be argued that the statement refers to 386BSD Release 1.0 sec, not the 386BSD Reference CD-ROM as a whole, but it is hard to draw a line, if any. > It probibits commercial distributions, but the important > clause from our point of view is: > > * 5. Non-commercial distribution of the complete source and/or binary > * release at no charge to the user (such as from an official Internet > * archive site) is permitted. > > I was going to take out just the source tree, but another clause > states: > > * 7. Non-commercial and/or commercial distribution of an incomplete, > * altered, or otherwise modified source and/or binary release is not > * permitted. Same issue here, would excluding eg. .book & .articles make the Release incomplete or not? > Since this is the only copyright statement, I assume that this means I > can put up the entire CD image, but not just part of it, so that's > what I've done. It's at http://www.lemis.com/grog/src/386BSD-1.0.bz2 . The only thing I could find that makes some sort of demarcation is the installer, which leaves some bits behind when doing a full install. Without vehement arguing from stakeholders or copyright lawyers to the contrary I assume the same and thank you for putting it up there. /Jacob