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From: pink@fsz.bme.hu (Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther))
Subject: Re: [available] sound applications: xboing,
Message-ID: <CE5x95.LEB@sztaki.hu>
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Organization: Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest, HUNGARY
References: <TRI.93Sep28091222@beta.hut.fi>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 10:31:52 GMT
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In article 93Sep28091222@beta.hut.fi, tri@snakemail.hut.fi (Timo Rinne) writes:
>>>>>> 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

Why don't you ask the driver's author ?
I did when i sent him some patches and he told me, that there will be a
new version, without GPL for FreeBSD and possibly NetBSD, plus some cool 
utilities.

I hope i didn't give out any secret information. :-)

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