Subject: Re: serial port control
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
List: current-users
Date: 02/13/1998 14:45:22
Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Cooper writes:
> > On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Ted Lemon wrote:
> > > Do they make you sign anything, or is it just a fee you pay?
> > I have said document.  Our group manager did some negotiations to get it.
> > I believe we had to sign something.  The terms appear to prevent you from
> > disclosing the info, even via source code.
> 
> The document appears to prevent even me from seeing the document if I
> were to write the program on behalf of a corporate customer.  Only
> "real" employees of the licensed coporation are allowed to see the
> language specification.  It explicitly rules out consultants and use
> of even a binary program outside of the corporation.
> 
> Off to see if I can find the Best Power docs...  

Well, I see I was very happy with Match ;-) They sent me 
description of the protocol for free and with no conditions.

Jaromir
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