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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:54:46 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
Cc:        Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IEEE Journalist looking for facts about Microsoft use of BSDcode
Message-ID:  <20010622135446.A57186@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106201557120.6278-100000@cody.jharris.com>; from nick@rogness.net on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:01:11PM -0500
References:  <3B30F8EE.FA429E8A@iowna.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106201557120.6278-100000@cody.jharris.com>

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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
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