James S Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2001. I'm going to work with DesktopBSD for a bit to
> familiarize myself with BSD/Unix. I'd like to learn
> as much as possible about FBSD and Unix in general,
Get yourself some books. Old ones will do fine. There are a few BSD
ones but Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
> The license normally says "BY THE FOO PROJECT AND ITS CONTRIBUTORS" or
> "BY ITS AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS" in which case I'd consider the author
> of the derivative work a contributor and leave it at that. IANAL.
I'm not commenting on the guts of
"Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The situation: a project is reusing a BSD style licensed code and is
> relicensing their changes with the same license.
>
> The original license had the "AS IS" disclaimer that specifically mentioned
> the project's name.
>
> Is it acceptable to rew
Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You have Perl on that list but Perl is not GPL.
Uh, yeah; that was from my fairly-new "badly-licensed" file and it
hasn't been well checked. I must have grabbed it because I found
"/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/".
Note also "/usr/src/contrib/perl5/Copyi
Diane Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I personally can't be bothered wasting my time putting a bsd userland
> on top of a linux kernel, but I would like to see RMS scream. There goes
> his claim to "Gnu/linux", as Linus himself last I read, was indifferent
> to the license.
Linus has expresse
"Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are there any free-to-use tools for testing various standards (tools
> and functions) and reporting?
The Open Group is involved in testing Linux (sounds like API-level).
Their server is currently not serving much, but some info is at
http://www.linux
Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyone want to port FreeBSD to the Linux kernel? This is what I'm thinking...
And this is what I'm thinking...
I'd like to see a set of mini-distributions which are various
combinations of: 1) kernel (*BSDs and, if Nikolas can manage it,
Linux :), 2)
Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 8/12/05, Gary W. Swearingen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Like what?
>>
>> Like the indemnification clause in
>> http://mail
> This is almost perfect. Thanks!
Almost. But be sure to read
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/terms_of_use.html
and particularly, their "indemnification" and "jurisdiction" clauses.
I limit my dealing with such lawyer's clients to read-only access of
their web sites where the chance of
