Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 14:25:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, jasone@canonware.com, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft's breaches of contract (was: FBSD license and multiple copyright holders) Message-ID: <19980711142500.C23241@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980711003329.1108G-100000@bytor.rush.net>; from Pat Lynch on Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 12:34:56AM -0400 References: <199807110349.VAA28411@lariat.lariat.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980711003329.1108G-100000@bytor.rush.net>
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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. 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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