From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 10 21:55:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26467 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 21:55:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26459 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 21:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA24467; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 14:25:01 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980711142500.C23241@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 14:25:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Pat Lynch , Brett Glass Cc: Frank Pawlak , 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) References: <199807110349.VAA28411@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Pat Lynch on Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 12:34:56AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 11 July 1998 at 0:34:56 -0400, Pat Lynch wrote: > 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? > > 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 That's correct. > and make the code available on request.... No, there's no obligation to make the code available on request. > now MS *might* do this if we asked (unlikely, but hey, worth a try) It would certainly be worth a try. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message