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Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley
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	Just out of curiosity.. do we have anyone from *.microsoft.com
getting our source or OS?

-- Yan

Jan Koum                  jkb@best.com |  "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve  |   to go home in the dark."
                        Linux == DOS of the Unix world.

On Mon, 4 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:

>On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 08:33:10AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Mon,  4 May 1998 at  0:48:28 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>> > They don't have to explictly state that it is FreeBSD, but there are a
>> > LOT of credits they _do_ have to state.  Read through the source
>> > sometime.
>> >
>> > One example: They have to credit the University of California at
>> > Berkeley, even in their advertisements.  This example is in
>> > /usr/src/COPYRIGHT.
>> 
>> Right.  When did you last see this mentioned *anywhere* in System V.4?
>> You can bet your bottom dollar that Microsoft wouldn't be any better.
>
>Then we're dealing with license violation.  I don't think GPLing
>something will help you if you assume the license will be violated.
>
>Of course, the GPL is viral, and as a such might be more scary.  A
>neat hack might be to create a BSD-style license which goes viral if
>violated :-)
>
>Eivind.
>
>
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