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Re: SCO after BSD settlement


From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:27:55 -0800 (PST)

:The BSD license requires that the copyright appear in the manuals or
:the copyright notice provided with binaries. Have you checked the
:manuals Mirosoft ships with windows to see if they have the required
:copyrights? If they don't have the copyright notice, then they _can_ be

    The BSD license no longer has this requirement, retroactively.  This
    is indeed the requirement that 'hooked' AT&T in the USL lawsuit, but
    it no longer exists.  If you look at /usr/src/COPYRIGHT you will see
    this retroactive change at the end of the file.

    As much as I would like to sock it to SCO, the BSD license does not
    have that sort of power.  The GPL, however, does.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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