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On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Drew Hess wrote: > One case I can think of where a commercial vendor has taken a BSD-licensed > protocol and twisted it with proprietary changes is Microsoft+Kerberos, > but if I recall correctly, they eventually caved in to pressure and either > released their changes or made their implementation compatible with the > reference implementation. This is interesting. I've never though of using copyright to attempt to prevent embrace and extend ploys by commercial venders. But in the end, it seems futile. A big company like Microsoft has enough resources to reimplement libFLAC should they wish. Then they can embrace and extend without worry about copyright. So I would recommend a Public Domain ``license''. I really don't understand why that choice isn't more popular among developers. - -- Russell O'Connor <http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/> ``[Law enforcement officials] suggested that the activists were stopped not because their names are on the list, but because their names resemble those of suspected criminals or terrorists.'' -- SFGate.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (SunOS) iQCVAwUBPd1ANE0+aO5oRkNZAQILpwP/e9b19hXt9DOX1P2yMsTPMf9hBw1Py3Yj bpWbszaahRIgCoNg89G5htjENxdE8Apl6b4ETM3S8e5UR8XCLwDQbbPXByLoaew8 r0skUW8HBZQPbzj1pQExBl/DQ+gqA2JeLp8mIZisvdHJVT5Rbn7anUrCV6tlbdWw 0Zb7reLQhMk= =bIQ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-dev
