[Gllug] [Announcement] LinuxExpo'03

[Mark Hill]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:48:48PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Stephen Harker wrote:
> > 
> > They don't have to. Its released under the BSD licence. :-/
> 
> They don't have to pay for it however they do have to include the BSD 
> copyright notice.
> 
> I don't think you'll see it anywhere on a Windows machine as it boots or 
> anywhere else on the machine.

Unless you count using strings on ftp.exe <g>. Apparently, if you do:
strings /mnt/WINDOWS/system32/ftp.exe | grep Copyright

This will pop up:

Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California

(I don't have Windows installed so I can't test this).

> I suspect it may be in some documentation though.

Yes it is. In one of the readme files on the Windows XP Pro disk, there
is a mention that Windows contains BSD and MIT licensed code. 

-- 
Mark Hill

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