Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:45:52 +1000 From: Iain Templeton <iain@research.canon.com.au> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Andrew <perl@ukrpost.net> Subject: Re: GPL, BSD, Artistic license Message-ID: <20020702124350.4C8148B19@bellmann.research.canon.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20020702123637.GA2389@HAL9000.wox.org>
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You wrote: >Thus spake Andrew <perl@ukrpost.net>: >[snip topic that's bound to start another flamewar] > >> <OT> >> By the way, I heard on Zdnet that micro$oft uses some code from >> FreeBSD in their w2k. How did they do that? I've never seen BSD >> copyright notice in w2k. I thought BSDL applies to modified software >> even if it's distributed in binary forms. >> </OT> > >Microsoft has been lifting BSDL'd code for years, although they >don't always `remember' to say so in their release notes. They >usually mangle the attribution somehow, by using their own wording >for the license, or putting the license in one place and the >copyright in another (see link below). At least they're not as >bad as Red Hat with other people's intellectual property. > >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q306819#10 > Wow, even a FreeBSD committer has had their own code used in WindowsXP, and been directly acknowledged. Iain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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