Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:53:54 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Knowing if someone really stole someone else's code Message-ID: <4566b322./iYxBMPvlyC5aoZQ%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0611232356h12d8f85bwabc785b0e2909e35@mail.gmail.com> References: <cf5917110611232232o42aa03edpbf7fa3b084ddfdd0@mail.gmail.com> <14989d6e0611232356h12d8f85bwabc785b0e2909e35@mail.gmail.com>
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"Christian Walther" <gmail.com!cptsalek@agora.rdrop.com> wrote: > Sorry if I sound rude, but did you ever read the BSD license? > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html > > It says in the first sentence: > "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are > met..." > > I'd say you can use BSD licensed code for your own projects as long as > you provide the copyright message ... Actually, the O.P. raises a legitimate concern. Yes, the conditions for use of BSD-licensed code are very liberal; but this is beside his point. Suppose Alice *claims* that John used her *proprietary* code in his product, and John counters that he used someone else's BSD-licensed code? How is that sort of claim to be dealt with? The matter is more than hypothetical: I seem to recall some legal wrangling between IBM and SCO over SCO's allegation that IBM wrongly released SCO-proprietary code under the GPL.
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