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From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: aha2742. why no 386bsd driver soon.
Date: 9 Dec 1993 23:38:47 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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In article <CHqzyL.LBH@tfs.com> julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer) writes:

>The way I read this.. I cannot publish the drivers in any meaningful way
>that makes sense in a "source code distribution" OS like 386bsd or linux.

Linux is clearly out because of the GPL, but BSD could come with source
code for everything but the HIM, which would be shipped in object form.


-- 
    John Carr (jfc@mit.edu)