SCO after BSD settlement
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sun Nov 23 12:10:09 PST 2003
:
:I'm confused. Clause #3 (advertising) was rescinded, yes, but isn't
:Gary referring to clause #2 (original copyright message included with
:docs/materials, for binaries), which is still very much in the license?
:
:-Chris
This was brought up long ago. I am fairly sure that some people ran
'strings' on MS windows offerings and found Berkeley copyright messages
embedded in the binaries, and I believe someone found copyright
messages in certain pieces of documentation as well.
But even if MS did not follow the requirement to the letter there is
no point suing them... what kind of damages could UC extract from them
for using free software freely? Nothing, really. MS is basically using
the code the way we meant it to be used, and it would be silly to take
them to task for it.
The SCO situation is very different.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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