Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 17:56:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Nicole <freelist@webweaver.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505175532.13709J-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <19980504010604.28183@follo.net>
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Just out of curiosity.. do we have anyone from *.microsoft.com
getting our source or OS?
-- Yan
Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark."
Linux == DOS of the Unix world.
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 08:33:10AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 May 1998 at 0:48:28 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>> > They don't have to explictly state that it is FreeBSD, but there are a
>> > LOT of credits they _do_ have to state. Read through the source
>> > sometime.
>> >
>> > One example: They have to credit the University of California at
>> > Berkeley, even in their advertisements. This example is in
>> > /usr/src/COPYRIGHT.
>>
>> Right. When did you last see this mentioned *anywhere* in System V.4?
>> You can bet your bottom dollar that Microsoft wouldn't be any better.
>
>Then we're dealing with license violation. I don't think GPLing
>something will help you if you assume the license will be violated.
>
>Of course, the GPL is viral, and as a such might be more scary. A
>neat hack might be to create a BSD-style license which goes viral if
>violated :-)
>
>Eivind.
>
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