From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 20:04:02 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A8916A545 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:04:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1620343D66 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:04:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE695F1D; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:04:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 84458-06; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:03:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-50-112.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.50.112]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A875EBF; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:03:57 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42013213.6000703@mac.com> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:03:31 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Trulsson References: <20050202091217.2552.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com> <4200C794.1030809@nbritton.org> <20050202123425.GA65636@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <4200CF09.6070608@nbritton.org> <20050202132238.GA65974@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20050202132238.GA65974@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: distrubuting distro X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:04:02 -0000 Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:00:57AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: >> as long as he keeps the BSD copyright notices in >> there etc he can do anything he wants with it, ANYTHING! For example the >> Windows NT network stack was ripped from OpenBSD et. al. > > It has been widely alleged (and is even likely) that Windows got large > parts of the TCP/IP implementation from some BSD implementation, but so > far no proof has appeared. Microsoft's copyright gives credit to BSD and even to specific FreeBSD developers. Luigi Rizzo wrote IPFW, which is being used as the standard packet filtering firewall in MacOS X as well as in newer flavors of Windows. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/copyright.asp Acknowledgements Portions of this product are based in part on the work of Mark H. Colburn and sponsored by the USENIX Association. Copyright © 1989 Mark H. Colburn. All rights reserved. This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. Portions of this product are based in part on the work of the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. Because Microsoft has included the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, software in this product, Microsoft is required to include the following text that accompanied such software: Copyright © 1985, 1988 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. [ ... ] Portions of this software are based in part on the work of Luigi Rizzo. Because Microsoft has included the Luigi Rizzo software in this product, Microsoft is required to include the following text that accompanied such software: © 1997-98 Luigi Rizzo (luigi@iet.unipi.it) ----- As someone else said, you can also find strings in telnet.exe and other utilities which include RCS information and/or copyrights from BSD. -- -Chuck