From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 16 22:51:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1084F37B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B33743E4A for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:51:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA21234; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:51:25 -0600 (MDT) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook is dangerous and makes your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020916234903.00bf67a0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:51:22 -0600 To: Alex , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Stolen BSD code found in Linux kernel In-Reply-To: <4417215744.20020916215255@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:52 PM 9/16/2002, Alex wrote: >Hello/Beste , > >I was browsing trough a news directory and found this article. Does >anybody has the story how it ended? Does anyone know if it happened >again? > >http://slashdot.org/bsd/01/09/24/1432223.shtml It doubtless happens all the time. The GPL zealots are unwilling to admit that BSD code has any merit whatsoever, and so refuse to give credit or preserve the copyright notice or license in many cases. Yes, they're engaging in theft, but being unethical already (the GPL being an unethical attempt to destroy developers' livelihoods) they don't care. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message