From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 17 20: 8: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8739937B4D2 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:08:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C830243EE5 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:07:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 03D428146E; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:37:55 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:37:54 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: Alex , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stolen BSD code found in Linux kernel Message-ID: <20020918030754.GB33163@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4417215744.20020916215255@dds.nl> <4.3.2.7.2.20020916234903.00bf67a0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020916234903.00bf67a0@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Monday, 16 September 2002 at 23:51:22 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 01:52 PM 9/16/2002, Alex wrote: > >> Hello/Beste , >> >> I was browsing trough a news directory and found this article. Does >> anybody has the story how it ended? Does anyone know if it happened >> again? >> >> http://slashdot.org/bsd/01/09/24/1432223.shtml > > It doubtless happens all the time. The GPL zealots are unwilling to > admit that BSD code has any merit whatsoever, and so refuse to give > credit or preserve the copyright notice or license in many cases. > Yes, they're engaging in theft, but being unethical already (the > GPL being an unethical attempt to destroy developers' livelihoods) > they don't care. Well, far be it for me to try to teach you a balanced view of the community, but maybe I can point you to some facts. As others have pointed out, this issue is a year old. In addition, it was resolved almost before it started. Take a look at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21918&cid=2348894. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message