In article <Pine.NEB.4.44.0302210840540.27785-100000@haiku.jarai.net>,
Brian Chase <vaxzilla@jarai.org> wrote:

>Now, I'm not quite familiar with all the history of the OpenBSD / NetBSD
>split, but I'm under the impression that OpenBSD effectively wholesale
>copied the then existing NetBSD tree and modified it to their needs.
>Which is certainly /allowed/ under the BSD license, as long as the
>proper attributions are retained.
>
>And though I disagree with the reported wholesale search-and-replace of
>copyright notices done by MicroBSD, that's clearly in violation of the
>BSD license, it does seems like an easy enough problem to fix and get
>back in compliance with the BSD licensing terms.  So why all the fuss to
>shut them down?
>
>Is my understanding of the history between NetBSD and OpenBSD mistaken,
>or does this behavior by OpenBSD towards MicroBSD really seem a bit
>hypocritical?

Not at all. The MicroBSD people changed the OpenBSD copyrights to
MicroBSD ones. For the most part the {Free,Net,Open}BSD developers
are very careful to retain the copyrights and to provide proper
attributions.

christos