From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 23 23:34:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1486B37B41A for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:34:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA27539; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:33:58 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011224003127.01ebcbb0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:33:53 -0700 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), dwalton@acm.org From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Does Linux violate the GPL? Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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