From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 10 21:35:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA24134 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 21:35:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bytor.rush.net (lynch@bytor.rush.net [209.45.245.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA24125 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 21:35:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by bytor.rush.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA07659; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 00:34:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 00:34:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch To: Brett Glass cc: Frank Pawlak , Greg Lehey , Wes Peters , 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) In-Reply-To: <199807110349.VAA28411@lariat.lariat.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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