Subject: Re: apm hangs my system
To: der Mouse <mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/25/1997 12:49:58
> If you're using -current supped last night, on an i386 machine with
> pci, you are using code to which Chris Demetriou's new license applies.
> You are therefore required to "conspicuously and completely" display an
> Acknowledgment reading "This product includes software developed by
> Christopher G. Demetriou for the NetBSD Project." whenever you mention
> that system in "informational...materials of any kind", such as
> messages to port-i386. (See /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/pci.c for the full
> text of the relevant license.)
Of course, if you'd actually _read_ the license, you'd note that it
doesn't apply in this case, because this is quite thoroughly covered
-- and excluded -- by the clause about supporting existing users.
For what it's worth, i'm considering changing the license, and have
been for a while at core's request. It's just a matter of what it's
going to be changed to. However, People badgering me about it, or
generally being abusive (e.g. by trying to start a flame war and
cc'ing me so that i'll get extra copies of all the responses), aren't
going to help.
That kind of behaviour wastes my time, and certainly doesn't
predispose me to doing anything that you would find helpful, at all,
ever.
cgd