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From: tri@snakemail.hut.fi (Timo Rinne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: [available] sound applications: xboing, tracker and NetBSD-0.8.sound
Date: 28 Sep 1993 07:12:22 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
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Message-ID: <TRI.93Sep28091222@beta.hut.fi>
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In-reply-to: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie's message of Mon, 27 Sep 1993 22:28:59 GMT

>>>>> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie said:
>> I am going to send e-mail to the author of the SB driver to get
>> clarification or permission to distribute a binary kernel with
>> his SB driver. Wish me luck :-)
>>
>> Amancio

> I wish you luck, Amancio, but be warned that merely asking *him* for
> permission isn't going to save us, since it pretty much went out of
> his hands the minute he released it under the GPL!  He can't tell you
> that it's OK for you to release a binary-only copy of his GPL'd
> driver; no one can.

Of course he can grant additional permission to distribute his work if
he chooses to do so.  Why couldn't he.  It's his work and he can do
pretty much anything with it.  

//tri