Re: Knowing if someone really stole someone else's code

2006-11-24 Thread Christian Walther
Okay, sorry for the misunderstanding. I got the point now. Are there any lawyers on this list? ;-) I don't know if there is a good answer in general to these questions. I remember that there have been several law suits and allegations against several software developers in the past. These where m

Re: Knowing if someone really stole someone else's code

2006-11-24 Thread perryh
"Christian Walther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if I sound rude, but did you ever read the BSD license? > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html > > It says in the first sentence: > "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > modification, are permit

Re: Knowing if someone really stole someone else's code

2006-11-23 Thread Christian Walther
Sorry if I sound rude, but did you ever read the BSD license? http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html It says in the first sentence: "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met..." I'

Knowing if someone really stole someone else's code

2006-11-23 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, It's been almost three years since I started using opensource software, specifically FreeBSD. I'm glad that I'm learning a lot of things from it. Things that I'm sure I would never have learned if I haven't entered this so called opensource world. Things that I can say, have positively affect