Microsoft IPv6 WWW Server under GNU GPL

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Fri May 25 01:17:34 PDT 2001


A good laugh for today...

(from Linux Today
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-25-005-20-OS-MS)

Henry Chosta writes:

"I came across this URL: http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6/fnord.htm by
accident,only to find Microsoft using the "Intellectual Property Killer" for
a software package freely downloadable from their site. Quite interesting."

Microsoft hasn't so much "released" it as a few of their engineers have sort
of put it up there where people like our correspondent can stumble across
it. It just takes a little grepping to turn up the GNU license throughout
the source, though. Just download the file msripv6-fnord-1.5.exe, use the
standard unzip util you'll find available in your distro, and run grep -rl
GNU Source/* for a list of the files that at least contain the expression
"GNU," most of which seemed to contain the standard copyleft notification
within.
"fnord," indeed.



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