Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 02:16:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFilter not free software? Message-ID: <3B14BA89.578D1D6@mindspring.com> References: <20010525084905.A94861@lpt.ens.fr> <200105251841.LAA12009@usr05.primenet.com> <20010526102234.A51269@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > I'll be obliged. Also if you can point at one "InterJet" or
> > "IBM Web Connections" ad which mentions features specific to,
> > or use of, FreeBSD.
>
> I'm not familiar with these.
OK, so pick "FreeGate" or "Encanto" or "CacheFlow"; whatever.
> And how about Apple Mac OS X? They may not always mention BSD, but
> they mention the software and its features, which are BSD, whether
> they call it that or not.
>
> Or are you saying it's ok to use the software, and advertise its use
> and features, and not mention UCB, as long as you don't acknowledge
> that it's BSD code you're using either? If so, how does that stop
> anyone stealing credit for the code?
If you do not specifically mention your use of the software,
or features unique to it, in your marketing materials, then
you do not have to mention the specific caluse contents.
For distribution in binary form, the old license meant you
had to put a blurb in appendix K of your documentation on
CDROM, in a 4 point font, to comply.
In general, the Whistle/IBM products didn't mention features
specific to the code in the marketing materials, and had a
button you could go to and see the various open source stuff
from a web browser ("accompanying documentation"), which the
highly paid legions of IBM lawyers assured us was rather more
than adequate.
-- Terry
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