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by koenigdavidmj 5261 days ago
Yes, it is following the letter of the law, but the NetBSD people are also free to complain about it.

OpenBSD does the same: they list a bunch of vendors at [1] but they note on [2]:

> In the 10 years since the inception of the OpenSSH project, these companies have contributed not even a dime of thanks in support of the OpenSSH project (despite numerous requests).

1: http://www.openssh.com/users.html 2: http://www.openssh.com/

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Sure, they can complain.

But if they're going to, they should just impose more restrictions on using their code. Maybe even a copyleft license.

If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

If Sony were using my code in their product, I'd be pretty excited and proud to have created something that a huge company would use.
yeah, let's ruin it for everyone because of a few bad Apples.
There is no complaining on this page though. He just seems excited that code from NetBSD has been that widely deployed,