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Calum:
i beg to differ. Microsoft can and do stop me from taking the BSD code from their software, by not making those parts open source. Are they doing so illegally? Or is it a situation where they can claim that i can get the BSD code that they used from it's original source, so no rights have been infringed?

iustitia:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
i beg to differ. Microsoft can and do stop me from taking the BSD code from their software, by not making those parts open source. Are they doing so illegally? Or is it a situation where they can claim that i can get the BSD code that they used from it's original source, so no rights have been infringed?
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Look at the BSD license.  I think thats the name of the license under which BSD unix falls, but Im  not sure.  Says nothing about having to share the code after using it.  Youre thinking of GPL, which does.  In fact, most public licenses dont say anything like the GPL, the GPL is quite restrictive as things go.  Thats why M$ and other corperatios were able to steal from mozilla and kerbos from MIT.

-Justice

psedit:  Whoops, didnt notice the license on the previous page.

[ June 16, 2002: Message edited by: iustitia ]

Calum:
i do not agree that the GPL is restrictive, it just recognises the rights of the writers of and contributors to any program. The BSD licence may be great for cherry pickers, but it walks all over the people who wrote the code. Fine if they agree, but they should have the choice to go GPL as well.

 
quote:M$ could not stop you from taking the BSD out of their software
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That's what i was replying to above... I said they could stop me taking the BSD out of windows, by not releasing the source.

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