License Question

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:25:20PM -0700, achrist at easystreet.com wrote:
[...]
> For example: I've got Windows NT on my machine, and I know that the
> FTP program that comes with WinNT is BSD or something like it from
> UC.  I see that the executable has the UC copyright notice in it, OK,
> but I don't see anywhere where Microsoft has given me the notice 
> about what I'm supposed to do when redistributing it in source or
> binary form.

You're not supposed to redistribute ftp.exe.  Or kern.sys.  Or any other
part of Windows NT; read your EULA.

>               If they just distribute a binary, do they have
> to include the notice about source redistributions?  Wouldn't that
> confuse the users?

The BSD license doesn't require source to be distributed with binaries.

-Andrew.