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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sztaki!news From: pink@fsz.bme.hu (Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther)) Subject: Re: [available] sound applications: xboing, Message-ID: <CE5x95.LEB@sztaki.hu> Sender: news@sztaki.hu (News system) Reply-To: pink@fsz.bme.hu 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 Lines: 34 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. :-) --- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |We'll be right back. | Szabolcs Szigeti | | I've no idea what's next! | Internet: pink@fsz.bme.hu | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=