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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: AHA-2940 SCSI adapter
Date: 15 May 1995 16:39:25 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <3p803t$da5@helena.MT.net>
References: <3njpbb$h32@anshar.shadow.net> <3nl6o0$80o@serpens.rhein.de> <3opmtj$fec@enigma.uniserve.com> <MICHAELV.95May12222347@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <MICHAELV.95May12222347@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:

>   >>Any ETA on when this driver will be supported in NetBSD?
>
>     FreeBSD has a driver.  All that is required is that someone 
>   port the driver to NetBSD.
>
>But, if you port the FreeBSD (or Linux) driver, you will have to
>maintain it yourself -- it won't be able to go in the true NetBSD
>distribution, since both drivers have GNU-copylefted code in them.

Nope, the FreeBSD driver is now distributed with a BSD copyright after
the original author gave permission to the FreeBSD maintainer because of
his contributions to the code.


Nate
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