From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 21:24:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B80F37B403 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:24:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D849C6ACBC; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:54:46 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:54:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nick Rogness Cc: Bill Moran , "Person, Roderick" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IEEE Journalist looking for facts about Microsoft use of BSDcode Message-ID: <20010622135446.A57186@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3B30F8EE.FA429E8A@iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from nick@rogness.net on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:01:11PM -0500 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 20 June 2001 at 16:01:11 -0500, Nick Rogness wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > >> "Person, Roderick" wrote: >>> >>> I searched for "California" on a NT machine and found the same. >> > >> My question would be: Does a search for "FreeBSD" yield anything? Code >> developed specifically for FreeBSD should say "Copyright FreeBSD >> Project" and not have the word "California" in it anywhere. > > FreeBSD carries the BSD licence, hence the Regents of the > University of "California". But I did search it again for FreeBSD > and nothing as I would expect. There's no reason to believe that Microsoft has included FreeBSD code anywhere in their software. The issue was BSD, not FreeBSD. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message