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Date:      Mon, 4 May 1998 11:21:05 -0400
From:      "Yarema" <yds@ingress.com>
To:        <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, "FreeBSD advocacy list" <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley 
Message-ID:  <014301bd7770$42351720$1f40e6cd@ichiban.ingress.com>

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>I've been thinking that considering Netscape's release of their browser
>source code that maybe it would be a good idea for IBM to do the same
>with OS/2. IBM can't be collecting very much money selling OS/2. Well,
>at least not much in IBM scale.


Hmm.. They already have a suitable (read: very BSD like) license/Copyright
at http://www.clark.net/~proberts/vmailer/COPYRIGHT.html:

-----begin-----
Copyright (c) 1997 by International Business Machines, Inc.

International Business Machines, Inc. (hereinafter called IBM)
grants permission under its copyrights to use, copy, modify, and
distribute this Software with or without fee, provided that all
paragraphs of this notice appear in all copies, and that the name
of IBM not be used in connection with the marketing of any product
incorporating the Software or modifications thereof, without
specific, written prior permission.

To the extent it has a right to do so, IBM grants an immunity from
suit under its patents, if any, for the use, sale or manufacture
of products to the extent that such products are used for electronic
mail transport and delivery by means of the Software.  No immunity
is granted for any product per se or for any other function of any
product.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", AND IBM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  IN NO EVENT SHALL IBM BE LIABLE FOR ANY
SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF IBM IS APPRISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGES.
-----end-----


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