Subject: Re: CDDL (was Re: Star & NetBSD)
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.cuni.cz>
From: David Maxwell <david@vex.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/11/2005 11:39:21
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:15:34 -0500, David Maxwell wrote:
> 
> > Since we want people to be free to use NetBSD for whatever they want,
> > imposing a license that they must share the source of any changes they
> > make would be self-defeating.
> 
> from src/sys/ddb/db_access.c :
> 
>  * Carnegie Mellon requests users of this software to return to
>  *
>  *  Software Distribution Coordinator  or  Software.Distribution@CS.CMU.EDU
>  *  School of Computer Science
>  *  Carnegie Mellon University
>  *  Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
>  *
>  * any improvements or extensions that they make and grant Carnegie the
>  * rights to redistribute these changes.

IANAL. The keyword there is 'requests', rather than 'requires'.

-- 
David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net --> Mastery of UNIX, like
mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is always dear,
but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live
in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. - Thomas Scoville