>> how come we can't just satisfy part a?
>
>because we want people to be able to take netbsd and build commercial
>systems out of it and not necessary *have* to release source
>themselves.

much as i suspected.  thank you for confirming that.

>"we" can satisfy it, but folks downstream from us might not.

right.

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