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Interview: Linux usage raises big legal concerns (Gulf News)

Interview: Linux usage raises big legal concerns (Gulf News)

Posted Sep 15, 2003 1:39 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Interview: Linux usage raises big legal concerns (Gulf News) by cpm
Parent article: Interview: Linux usage raises big legal concerns (Gulf News)

From Windows 2003 Server

The ftp client.

$ strings ftp.exe | grep Copy
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.

Still there :-)


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Interview: Linux usage raises big legal concerns (Gulf News)

Posted Sep 15, 2003 20:20 UTC (Mon) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link]

Right, and it's BSD licensed, so this is legal, as long as the copyright is acknowledged. And since it's in the strings, it's probably acknowledged somewhere.

Now if it were "Copyright Linus Torvalds" or "Copyright Free Software Foundation", then that would be cause for concern, but how is this implying that MS doesn't care about IP law?

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