Subject: Re: SunOS4 libdl.so
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/19/2004 12:20:17
> ftp://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub/patches offers 102545-13.tar.Z and
> 100257-06.tar.Z which contain nearly everything needed to run SunOS4
> executables under NetBSD/sparc, [...]

> While this may be of historic interest it would be nice to drop in a
> pkgsrc entry for compat_sunos :)

Did you check the /README as mentioned in their FTP splash screen?  The
license under which those things travel does not permit using them
except "with the specific software previously licensed by you from Sun
with which this Modification is intended to operate".  To my eye this
rules out using them with NetBSD/sparc SunOS compatability mode.

Now, as an individual you may choose to ignore that and probably
(probably!) will not get in much trouble for it.  But I think it would
set a really bad precedent for NetBSD's pkgsrc to do so.

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