On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:00:57AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:as long as he keeps the BSD copyright notices in there etc he can do anything he wants with it, ANYTHING! For example the Windows NT network stack was ripped from OpenBSD et. al.
It has been widely alleged (and is even likely) that Windows got large parts of the TCP/IP implementation from some BSD implementation, but so far no proof has appeared.
Microsoft's copyright gives credit to BSD and even to specific FreeBSD developers. Luigi Rizzo wrote IPFW, which is being used as the standard packet filtering firewall in MacOS X as well as in newer flavors of Windows.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/copyright.asp
Acknowledgements
Portions of this product are based in part on the work of Mark H. Colburn and sponsored by the USENIX Association. Copyright © 1989 Mark H. Colburn. All rights reserved.
This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.
Portions of this product are based in part on the work of the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. Because Microsoft has included the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, software in this product, Microsoft is required to include the following text that accompanied such software:
Copyright © 1985, 1988 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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Portions of this software are based in part on the work of Luigi Rizzo. Because Microsoft has included the Luigi Rizzo software in this product, Microsoft is required to include the following text that accompanied such software:
© 1997-98 Luigi Rizzo ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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As someone else said, you can also find strings in telnet.exe and other utilities which include RCS information and/or copyrights from BSD.
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