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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD free? Message-ID: <hastyD0oFo0.4H8@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1994Dec2.033418.18026@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <KSTAILEY.94Dec7103038@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <3cdj67$rt9@fw.novatel.ca> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 02:45:35 GMT Lines: 61 In article <3cdj67$rt9@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes: >Sorry, I don't know who wrote the comment below so I can't attribute correctly) >: >FreeBSD and NetBSD both have no GPLed code in the kernel. NetBSD makes a >: >point of having as little as possible elsewhere, but FreeBSD makes the >: >decision on a program by program basis (or this is what was going a >: >while ago, and as far as I know neither group has changed their stance). > >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. > Hmmm... Perhaps, someone included the bsdi sound driver which you took a look at . Here is the copyright notice for the Linux sound driver incorporated into FreeBSD and as far as I know is the distributed sound driver for FreeBSD: /sys/i386/isa/sound > more COPYING /* * Copyright by Hannu Savolainen 1993 * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. * */ /sys/i386/isa/sound > Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, netaudio, tcl/tk, MIME, midi,sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant Home: (415) 495-3046 e-mail hasty@netcom.com