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Date:      Sun, 12 Jul 1998 03:14:53 +0000
From:      "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net>
Cc:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jasone@canonware.com, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com
Subject:   Re: Microsoft's breaches of contract (was: FBSD license and  multiple copyright holders)
Message-ID:  <980712031453.ZM14755@darkstar.connect.com>
In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> "Re: Microsoft's breaches of contract (was: FBSD license and  multiple copyright holders)" (Jul 11,  2:25pm)
References:  <199807110349.VAA28411@lariat.lariat.org>  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980711003329.1108G-100000@bytor.rush.net>  <19980711142500.C23241@freebie.lemis.com>

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On Jul 11,  2:25pm, Greg Lehey wrote:
> Subject: Re: Microsoft's breaches of contract (was: FBSD license and  mult
> On Saturday, 11 July 1998 at  0:34:56 -0400, Pat Lynch wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Brett Glass wrote:
> >> Interestingly, the Microsoft Windows 95 implementations of a few TCP/IP
> >> utilities are said to have Berkeley copyright notices in the code, which
> >> means they're probably derived from FreeBSD utilities. Is Microsoft giving
> >> credit to the developers? If it isn't, it may be violating the
> >> Berkeley-style license and thus could be the target of a copyright
lawsuit.
> >>
> >> Hmmm. Now there's an idea. Anyone care to research this?
> >
> > I talked to a guy from Apple, and they use alot of BSD derived code in Mac
> > OS X Server (Rhapsody 1.0) and they said they do not have to distribute
> > code, just include UCB's copyright notice
>
> That's correct.
>
> > and make the code available on request....
>
> No, there's no obligation to make the code available on request.
>
> > now MS *might* do this if we asked (unlikely, but hey, worth a try)
>
> It would certainly be worth a try.
>
> Greg
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>-- End of excerpt from Greg Lehey

God Greg, why would you ever want Micros*@#t code?  I am sure on you worst days
you write better code by accident than they do on purpose. ;-)

Frank


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