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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unido!hcshh!hm From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: selling 386BSD (was Re: 386BSD on CD-ROM?) Message-ID: <1557@hcshh.hcs.de> Date: 14 Aug 92 08:24:34 GMT References: <1992Aug11.190949.1496@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Aug12.100430.3467@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe Lines: 33 In <1992Aug12.100430.3467@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes: >Strangely, Chris Dimetrios (excuse wrong spelling) recently mentioned >in a patch he posted that he had put his *own* Copyright note on the patches. >And he further writes that if anyone want's to put hist software on CD-ROM >that checking back with him would be required. i can understand chris. yesterday i saw an ad in the german "unix magazin", where a company named "tuttle design" sells 386bsd 0.1 on tape for 399,- DM, which is about 250 US$. they say in the ad, that a contribution to bill jolitz is contained in this price.... i tried to talk to them, but there is just an answering machine ..... if anyone in germany thinks of buying from them, contact me, i will cut a tape for you if you contrib 250US$ (or whatever you can give) DIRECTLY to the jolitz's. conclusion: in every piece of software, i will put an equivalent copyright notice in. i spend an enormous amount of time writing an pccons device driver (watch out for it), and i do not like it, if some- one else is making money with it. don't misunderstand me, my contrib is on the way to bill & lynne, and if some- one sells 386bsd and gives ALL the money to the jolitz's, there is nothing wrong with it - i would like some sort of centralized version/revision management for 386bsd >= 0.2, and in order to do it, they need money ! hellmuth -- hellmuth michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH hamburg, europe hm@hcshh.hcs.de tel: +49/40/55903-170 fax: +49/40/5591486