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- From: drg@bubba.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R Guilderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- Message-ID: <DRG.92Jul31154706@bubba.ma30.bull.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 22:47:06 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu's message of Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:34:31 GMT
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- In article <Bs9nLo.I2n@cs.psu.edu> ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
-
- If USL/AT&T can convince a court that NET-2 is a "derived work" the
- implications are unfathomable. Would this mean that any code in NET-2 would
- now require USL/AT&T licenses? Would Van Jacobsen's TCP/IP code then
- require a license?
-
- Obviously not. Otherwise, Microsoft would be able to claim that every
- application written for DOS is a derived work of DOS. TCP/IP is an
- application/system which happens to run on UNIX among other platforms.
- Is TCP/IP a derived work of DOS? It was written for DOS (PC/TCP among
- others). The answer is no; it is not derived from DOS nor UNIX. It
- might be derived from something else but there was no functionality in
- either DOS or UNIX which approaches that of TCP/IP so what could it
- possibly have been derived from? The cat/type program maybe?
-
- Richard Stallman is right when he says that software copyrights are evil.
-
- This is totally bogus. Stallman copyrights every single piece of code
- he writes. He puts all his code under the GNU license. He has never
- claimed that software copyrights are evil. User interface copyright
- is a completely different ball game.
-