Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:42:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard) Cc: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), marko@FreeBSD.ORG (Mark Ovens), will@physics.purdue.edu (Will Andrews), advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stolen script? Message-ID: <200010022142.OAA11519@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <60053.970515784@winston.osd.bsdi.com> from "Jordan Hubbard" at Oct 02, 2000 12:43:04 PM
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> Seriously, if you're interested in doing something more substantive > than making facial expressions then go on a witch-hunt for files which > lack copyright notice and then either add such notice where it's > obvious what the author meant or contact the author in those cases > where it's not. THAT would be an activity worthy of everyone's time > and attention and Rod Grimes used to do this for us before he got too > busy with his business. According to the IBM lawyers who did due dilligence on all of FreeBSD, prior to the Whistle acquisition, the src/COPYRIGHT is all that's necessary and sufficient. These guys are so paranoid that they were asking how much beer would be necessary to buy Poul-Henning off, and how frequently it must be provided, if it was required... we assured them that Poul-Henning was (a) mortal, and (b) even if he could drink a two lawyers under a table, there's only so much beer he could drink before he passed out, which would limit his consumption considerably; then we pointed out that they could always (c) decide they didn't like the code, and trigger the escape clause. These are the same people who made us remove squid prior to sending the code to any customers, and redo all of our code that assumed the use of a proxy cache (web site blocking, etc.) for fear that squid infringed IBM patents, and that distribution of GPL'ed code infringing an IBM patent would grant a blanket license to use the patent to anyone who demanded the code from IBM by way of an InterJet. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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