Callaway: The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the [guilty] and the irresponsible
Callaway: The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the [guilty] and the irresponsible
Posted Aug 26, 2010 23:41 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: Callaway: The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the [guilty] and the irresponsible by coriordan
Parent article: Callaway: The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the [guilty] and the irresponsible
Speaking as an Old Guy: we simply didn't know any better then. We commonly posted code to the net with some note like
Copyright (c) 1986 by Sam Spade. You can do anything you want with this as long as you don't make money off it or pretend you wrote it.This was thought of as very permissive, but it isn't DFSG-free (the "free as in price" vs "free as in freedom" concept hadn't sunk in yet).
As for Sun's thinking, I think they wanted everyone to get the official version from them (Sun) while still allowing the freedom to package the code with other products if necessary.