Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 00:34:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.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: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980711003329.1108G-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199807110349.VAA28411@lariat.lariat.org>
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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 and make the code available on request.... now MS *might* do this if we asked (unlikely, but hey, worth a try) -Pat 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? > > --Brett > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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