brainstorming

[Arnoud Engelfriet]

Benjamin Rossen wrote:
> Well, now, that is not happening. Where would Microsoft be without TCP/IP - 
> running its own little Redmod Wide Web on NetBUI? Why has nobody declared the 
> Microsoft IE to be derivative, and force them to release it under the GPL? 

There's no GPL-licensed code in IE or even Windows that anyone is
aware of. There is BSD-licensed code there (the TCP/IP stack), but
the BSD license has no "share alike" clause like the GPL. And since
MS gives credit to the University of California, they comply with
the BSD license.

Arnoud

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