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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:45:52 +1000
From: Iain Templeton <iain@research.canon.com.au>
Subject: Re: GPL, BSD, Artistic license
To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>,
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Cc: Andrew <perl@ukrpost.net>
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You wrote:
>Thus spake Andrew <perl@ukrpost.net>:
>[snip topic that's bound to start another flamewar]
>
>>   <OT>
>>   By   the   way,  I heard on Zdnet that micro$oft uses some code from
>>   FreeBSD  in  their   w2k.  How did they do that? I've never seen BSD
>>   copyright notice in w2k. I thought BSDL applies to modified software
>>   even if it's distributed in binary forms.
>>   </OT>
>
>Microsoft has been lifting BSDL'd code for years, although they
>don't always `remember' to say so in their release notes.  They
>usually mangle the attribution somehow, by using their own wording
>for the license, or putting the license in one place and the
>copyright in another (see link below).  At least they're not as
>bad as Red Hat with other people's intellectual property.
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q306819#10
>

Wow, even a FreeBSD committer has had their own code used in WindowsXP,
and been directly acknowledged.

Iain


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