when someone rips off a webpage design or posts blogspam instead of linking to the original source. Please explain how this is different? Sure it's copyright i

when someone rips off a webpage design or posts blogspam instead of linking to the original source. Please explain how this is different? Sure it's copyright infringement, but the sin we're crying bloody murder about is PLAGIARISM It's the whole point of the BSD license: you can't pass off this source code as yours. In the original license with the advertising clause that applied to object code as well.