3rd party tape drives and "tc" driver
Steve Nuchia
steve at nuchat.UUCP
Sat Mar 17 08:45:58 AEST 1990
In article <39534 at apple.Apple.COM> rick at Apple.COM (Rick Auricchio) writes:
>The source for the driver is available in Apple's "Driver Kit" or whatever
>it's really called. As far as I know, it's available to developers thru the
>direct support channels (and maybe thru APDA, which is an Apple department
right, price is approx $100.
>that distributes this kinda stuff). I don't know the legal issues on
>redistribution, but I *think* third parties are allowed to hack the sample
>driver(s) and do what they want. But don't quote me on this.
According to the license that comes with it you can't even
copy it to your hard disk. Go figure.
>Also included in the kit is a portion of kernel source (especially all the
>I/O stuff), and a bunch of binary files (the stuff owned by AT&T). Of course,
Uhm, there wasn't much source beyond the apple device drivers.
Worse yet, it didn't have the driver I needed, the one that
doesn't work for the AST/Orange micro serial abortion card.
> But you can distribute *configurable* drivers.
Actually the license doesn't say you can do that, at least not
if your driver is derived from anything in the package.
They really need to straighten out the mumbo-jumbo if they
expect it to be taken seriously.
--
Steve Nuchia South Coast Computing Services (713) 964-2462
"You have no scars on your face, and you cannot handle pressure." - Billy Joel
More information about the Comp.unix.aux
mailing list