Brian, Please move this to hamradio/packet/tcpip/ka9q_gpl/ka9q_gpl.tar.gz . Thanks Bruce Perens AB6YM 29-December-1994 Phil Karn KA9Q has graciously agreed to make a small subset of the source files of his "KA9Q NOS" program available under the GNU General Public License, Version 2 (the "GPL"), as well as his current licensing terms (the "KA9Q license"). I asked Phil to dual-license these files so that we could include his AX.25 protocol stack within the Linux kernel, which is a GPL-ed program. Please note that Phil has _NOT_ GPL-ed the entirety of NOS, only the few source files related to the AX.25 and KISS protocols that I asked for. The TCP/IP stack within NOS is explicitly _NOT_ included in the files that have been released under the GPL. All of the files of NOS, including those that are available under the GPL, are still available under the KA9Q license, which made them free for use by ham radio operators and schools, and required a payment from others. Specifically, the files that have been released under the GPL are: ahdlc.c ahdlc.h ax25.c ax25.h ax25cmd.c ax25dump.c ax25hdr.c ax25subr.c ax25user.c axheard.c axsock.c devparam.c devparam.h kiss.c kiss.h kissdump.c lapb.c lapb.h lapbtime.c nrdump.c z8530.h z8530.s z8536.h I have uploaded the GPL-ed version of these files to ftp.ucsd.edu:hamradio/packet/tcpip/incoming/ka9q_gpl.tar.gz . This is a "tar" archive compressed with "gzip". Brian Kantor will probably move them from incoming into ftp.ucsd.edu:hamradio/packet/tcpip/ka9q_gpl when he has time. The versions of these files that are available under the KA9Q license are in the ZIP archive ftp.ucsd.edu:hamradio/packet/tcpip/ka9q/rcsdsrc.zip . I understand that a few other code fragments of NOS (headers mostly) may be necessary to port the KA9Q AX.25 protocol stack to Linux. When we determine what other fragments we need, I will communicate with Phil regarding them. If you have any questions about this announcement, please ask them in e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com . Thanks Bruce Perens AB6YM