Re: [expert] [OT] LILO

1999-11-21 Thread Arandir
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Derek Simkowiak wrote: > I thought that simply referring people to an "official" URL was > sufficient (i.e., referring to a public FTP site or the project HTTP > homepage). > > Are people really required to maintain copies of the source code > for the products the

Re: [expert] [OT] LILO

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Philp
Arandir wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Steve Philp wrote: > > > If I remember the commotion correctly, Be's boot loader is LILO. They > > originally shipped it without source and got a big > > Welcome from the open source community. :) > > Actually, they don't have to ship it with the source

Re: [expert] [OT] LILO

1999-11-21 Thread Derek Simkowiak
> Actually, they don't have to ship it with the source, only the license. They > DO have to make the source available somehow though. If you ask for the source > and they say they can't give it, then there's a problem. I thought that simply referring people to an "official" URL was suffic

Re: [expert] [OT] LILO

1999-11-20 Thread Arandir
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Steve Philp wrote: > If I remember the commotion correctly, Be's boot loader is LILO. They > originally shipped it without source and got a big > Welcome from the open source community. :) Actually, they don't have to ship it with the source, only the license. They DO have