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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman 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 Lines: 21 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant