Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:55:27 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFilter not free software? Message-ID: <20010530115527.J57297@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKGEGFPGAA.davids@webmaster.com>; from davids@webmaster.com on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:47:45AM -0700 References: <20010530112848.H57297@lpt.ens.fr> <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKGEGFPGAA.davids@webmaster.com>
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> The legal opinion that I got, when I asked our intellectual property > counsel, was that in the phrase "advertising materials mentioning features > or use of this software", the word "this" refers to the original software. > The networking features they were trumpeting were networking features of > Windows. Hm. Was that UCB's intention, or is it a legal loophole? What I mean is, the features they were trumpeting were features of the BSD software which had been included in Windows. They were not features which existed in Windows independently of the original code. So what you're saying seems to be that I can take the code and use it, and advertise its features as features of "my" software without acknowledging the source. In any case, it seems quite incompatible with Terry's argument that this is a "credit claim" clause. Few people in the real world know at all that Windows uses code from BSD. - R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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