From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 16 5:48:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail-b.bcc.ac.uk (mail-b.bcc.ac.uk [144.82.100.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC0C152F3 for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 05:48:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dlombardo@excite.com) Received: from medphys.ucl.ac.uk (actually host bach.medphys.ucl.ac.uk) by mail-b.bcc.ac.uk with SMTP (XT-PP) with ESMTP; Sun, 16 May 1999 13:48:44 +0100 Received: from marley.medphys (marley [128.40.233.29]) by medphys.ucl.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA00253 for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 13:48:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from excite.com by marley.medphys (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA13581; Sun, 16 May 1999 13:48:48 +0100 Message-ID: <373EBEC5.D8B1E0E0@excite.com> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 13:49:09 +0100 From: Dean Lombardo Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nt source licenses... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Narvi wrote: > > On Sun, 16 May 1999, Dean Lombardo wrote: > > > Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > > > > At 3:51 PM +0700 5/12/99, Ustimenko Semen wrote: > > > > Are we going to get this license? I am interested in NTFS > > > > source code a lot... > > > > > > I would be very careful about getting an NT source license if > > > your intention is to write NTFS support for some other operating > > > system. Microsoft is not doing this licensing for the benefit of > > > mankind, they are doing it to attract college-type users to > > > sticking with WinNT over open-source unixes. > > > > > > The last thing we need is some code from WinNT which causes us > > > to be sued by Microsoft... > > > > They can't sue - unless, of course, the code is copied verbatim (and > > They most definately *CAN* sue. I don't think "can't sue" is something > that applies to the US in any way. OK - perhaps I should rephrase it - they *can* sue, but they are not very likely to do so without good reason. Do you really think that someone at Microsoft is going to compare FreeBSD's (OpenBSD's / NetBSD's / Linux's / etc / etc) implementations of NTFS with their own, with the only intention of discovering that some parts were derived from their code? Even if they did, how would they prove it unless the code was indeed identical to theirs? It's an unwinnable war. > But do we have the money to prove that? And considering that we don't, it's even less likely. Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message