Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:49:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, 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: <19980712124913.R23241@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <980712031453.ZM14755@darkstar.connect.com>; from Frank Pawlak on Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 03:14:53AM %2B0000 References: <199807110349.VAA28411@lariat.lariat.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980711003329.1108G-100000@bytor.rush.net> <19980711142500.C23241@freebie.lemis.com> <grog@lemis.com> <980712031453.ZM14755@darkstar.connect.com>
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On Sunday, 12 July 1998 at 3:14:53 +0000, Frank Pawlak wrote: > 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. > > 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. ;-) I think we're misunderstanding each other. I was suggesting that somebody (not me :-) should try to get Microslop to adhere to the license conditions and declare that their software includes Berkeley-derived programs. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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