Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:33:53 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), dwalton@acm.org Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does Linux violate the GPL? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011224003127.01ebcbb0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <09n109t93i.109@localhost.localdomain> References: <20011223161559.0f20faa8.dwalton@acm.org> <20011223153232.4b562a74.dwalton@acm.org> <15398.28461.605242.845831@guru.mired.org> <20011223161559.0f20faa8.dwalton@acm.org>
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At 11:39 PM 12/23/2001, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >P.S. You said in a previous post that the BSD license doesn't allow >something. I hope you've also noticed the BSD licensors allow almost >anything. I've never heard of even a polite request to stop >infringment, let alone cease-and-desist letters and lawsuit threats. >It seems to be understood by licensors and licensees alike as just a >way to put code into the public domain with a declaimer of liability >and request for attribution. Actually, when AT&T sued Berkeley for releasing BSD, Berkeley countersued, claiming that AT&T had violated the "advertising clause" when incorporating parts of BSD into System V. The result: the suit was quietly settled. So, this was one case in which the few restrictions in the BSD License came in handy. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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