Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 03:14:53 +0000 From: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jasone@canonware.com, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com Subject: Re: Microsoft's breaches of contract (was: FBSD license and multiple copyright holders) Message-ID: <980712031453.ZM14755@darkstar.connect.com> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> "Re: Microsoft's breaches of contract (was: FBSD license and multiple copyright holders)" (Jul 11, 2:25pm) References: <199807110349.VAA28411@lariat.lariat.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980711003329.1108G-100000@bytor.rush.net> <19980711142500.C23241@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Jul 11, 2:25pm, Greg Lehey wrote: > Subject: Re: Microsoft's breaches of contract (was: FBSD license and mult > 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 >-- End of excerpt from Greg Lehey God Greg, why would you ever want Micros*@#t code? I am sure on you worst days you write better code by accident than they do on purpose. ;-) Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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