Get some of Bill's $$, LOL ??

David Schultz das at FreeBSD.ORG
Wed Dec 10 22:40:13 PST 2003


On Tue, Dec 09, 2003, Chris Dillon wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Colin Percival wrote:
> 
> >    I don't think anyone said it was draconian; merely that it was
> > GPL-incompatible.  And they're not using BSD TCP/IP code any more;
> > just some userland code (eg, ftp).
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/entserver/copyright.asp
> 
> Check out some of the code attributions in that copyright notice,
> which still includes a generic UCB attribution as well as one to Luigi
> Rizzo (which Phil Karn mentioned is "Luigi's reliable multicast
> implementation", but it could also be DummyNet, IPFW, and/or NAT
> related), the code from which probably came right out of FreeBSD.
> 
> -- 
>  Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us
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It's somewhat amusing that one of the notices has the advertising
clause.  It looks like they didn't notice that.

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