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From: Geoff Bull <geoff@research.canon.com.au>
Subject: Re: "proprietary", was Re: ada on linux
Date: 2000/06/05
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tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> While legal, adding significant value to one's
> proprietary product by copying/including something BSDed, without its
> author's permission, is usually considered unethical.

On what do you base this assertion ???
There is absolutely nothing to suggest this in the BSD license.