Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Interesting read on modelling instruments
From: Lamar Owen (lamar.owen_AT_wgcr.org)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 16:26:36 EEST
On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:32 pm, Michael J McGonagle wrote:
> Microsoft tried to do this with Kermit several years ago, the added a
> single element to the standard and then they tried to patent the
> documentation. The means that they used to distribute the package was as
> a Windows Executable, thus tryying to protect "their" work. Someone had
> dearchived the files and posted them on SlashDot. Microsoft appearently
> tried to get them to remove the documents, but seeing as how they were
> things that were pretty much in public usage (I don't know if Kermit was
> in the Public Domain or not).
That was Kerberos, which is under an MIT X-style license.
-- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
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