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From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD free?
Date: 11 Dec 1994 22:11:34 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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Message-ID: <3cftem$14q@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU>
References: <1994Dec2.033418.18026@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <KSTAILEY.94Dec7103038@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <3cdj67$rt9@fw.novatel.ca>
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In article <3cdj67$rt9@fw.novatel.ca>,
Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca> wrote:

>Last time I looked, the snd-drv stuff was GPL'd and last time I looked,
>that's what FreeBSD was using for its soundcard support and last time
>I looked, that stuff goes in the kernel.  Hence, "premise A" is false.

You haven't looked recently.  The license on Voxware is a standard
New Berkeley one with clauses three and four (the ones about
advertising and due credit) omitted, and (of course) the names changed
as appropriate.

/sys/i386/isa/sound/COPYING tells the story.

-GAWollman

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