Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:57:00 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: Boris Popov <bp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netsmb smb_conn.h smb_smb.c Message-ID: <3D8734AC.ABCC329A@FreeBSD.org> References: <3D85BE19.59196A84@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209162134040.1544-100000@lion.butya.kz> <20020916154308.GC28848@vega.vega.com> <20020917132617.GJ72320@starjuice.net>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On (2002/09/16 18:43), Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > > The files in question are under original BSD license which was > > > left intact since Apple borrowed smbfs. > > > > Good to hear. I was just playing devil's advocate, because the > > last thing the Project needs is legal battle with Apple. > > This was the big benefit FreeBSD expected out of Apple's use of our code > -- the receipt of bugfixes and perhaps even enhancements from folks paid > to hack on it. :-) This question needs more study, because patches applied by Darwin's hackers/Apple's engineers to BSD code aren't necesarily BSD licensed as well. BSDL is not a GPLV, which infects all derivative work, quite on contrary, I'd expect all Apple changes being APL licensed, not BSDL licensed. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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