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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:35:49 +0200
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>,
	Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: IPFilter not free software?
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David Schwartz said on May 30, 2001 at 03:41:44:
> 
> > I guess that's the problem I have.  The TCP/IP networking is a feature
> > of the BSD code which Microsoft used.  The way I read the clause,
> > advertising the features and use of the internet tools in Windows
> > is advertising the features and use of BSD code, without naming it.
> 
> 	You can't advertise something without mentioning it.

That is, if you say "BSD", you have to follow the advertising clause;
not otherwise.

> 	Seems to make what all meaningless? You don't think it's important to
> protect, for example, the connection between BSD and Berkeley? 

Certainly that's important.  But that would happen anyway, it seems to
me.

> And would you
> rather Microsoft credits Berkeley for its misfeatures just because it uses
> BSD code to implement them?

That's a different matter.  As I said, I think the advertising
clause was a bad idea in any case.

- R

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