From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 3 16:35:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18208 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 16:12:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17990; Sun, 3 May 1998 16:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA04773; Mon, 4 May 1998 08:40:45 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980504084045.C356@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 08:40:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Eivind Eklund , Nicole , Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley References: <199805030318.VAA15026@lariat.lariat.org> <19980504004828.35746@follo.net> <19980504083310.B356@freebie.lemis.com> <19980504010604.28183@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980504010604.28183@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Mon, May 04, 1998 at 01:06:04AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 4 May 1998 at 1:06:04 +0200, 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. Sure. This wasn't supposed to be an argument for the GPL. > 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 :-) You still need to get the source. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message