From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 17 3:41:31 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 80A1837B401 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 03:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pobox.inspire.net.nz (pobox.inspire.net.nz [203.79.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D6C843E4A for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 03:41:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdh@inspire.net.nz) Received: from inspire.net.nz (ipnet-240.inspire.net.nz [203.79.88.240]) by pobox.inspire.net.nz (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g8HAkmZ17377; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:46:49 +1200 (NZST) Message-ID: <3D870678.1080004@inspire.net.nz> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:39:52 +1200 From: Bruce Harding User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 X-Accept-Language: en-nz, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: Alex , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stolen BSD code found in Linux kernel References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020916234903.00bf67a0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Brett Glass wrote: > > 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. Isn't this like a year old, and it turned out to be just one guy who does this sort of thing frequently? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message