Subject: Re: Which OS would YOU choose?
To: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/07/1999 20:22:19
Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET> writes:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> > I know of at least 2 embedded products using NetBSD that didn't want to 
> > publicize what their products were based on.  Not for reasons of 'distrust'
> > so much as "it's no ones business what the inside of our product looks 
> > like".
> 
> How is it that this isn't legally very much our business?  NetBSD deserves
> recognition for its use in these products, and I was under the impression
> that our license was written to insure that they do quite a bit more than
> ``officially admit'' to using NetBSD:

Just because they'll put an acknowledgement into their docs doesn't
mean that they'll officially admit to using NetBSD per se in public.

Perry