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From: cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: 386BSD Release: Contributors Only Please...
Date: 22 May 93 02:23:24
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu's message of 20 May 1993 17:55:08 GMT
In article <1tggls$oqi@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
>We haven't received ANYTHING from NETBSD -- not one line of code.
to this i respond with:
"did you ask?"
the answer is no.
we (the NetBSD people) have not heard a *peep* from you about our work.
we have always made it our policy to:
(1) make our latest sources as available as quickly as possible
and as up-to-date as possible. (the NetBSD-current
hierarchy had been around for a while, for example,
but i wanted the updating stuff properly tested and
debugged before i announced it to the world.)
it's updated nightly via cron.
(2) provide patches to fix specific bugs for which we had solutions
to people who asked for them, and, if we thought the bug
was of the appropriate caliber, the net and the patchkit
people. (this is especially true if the people in
question would have a hard time with getting a whole
new source tree, or even the individual new files, e.g.
because they were on the other end of a uucp link.)
and as for actually "taking" from any of that code, that which i
say now (and have always said; ask Nate, and others) is:
"Read the license on the top of the file."
it invariably says that you can use the code.
(and besides, if we didn't want people to have it, we wouldn't
make distribute it!)
chris
--
Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass