Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:06:28 -0400 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UID < 65535? Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19960828040628.00685104@interpath.com>
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At 10:57 PM 8/27/96 -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote: >>Me: When has a BSD-style copyright not been enough to keep code on the net? >> >>Reece: The original CMU AFS code had a BSD-style copyright on it. Where >> can it be found now? >> >>Me: Oh. Is that our pizza? > >The reason that you can't find AFS anymore is because when the AFS >people left CMU to form Transarc, one of the conditions of them buying >the rights to AFS was to remove AFS from CMU's FTP sites and the sites >of other places on the net (I don't quite know how they got the other >sites to get rid of the code, though). Exactly the situation he wants to avoid. >In theory, if you still had AFS-2 source code, you could do whatever >you wanted with it. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmyeahhhh. "if you still had...." grrrrrr. > As I understand it, the copyright hasn't changed >on the AFS-2 code that was on the net (however, the code was probably sold >to Transarc _not_ under a BSD copyright - you can release code under as >many different copyrights as you want). I don't see how the GPL would >have changed this scenario at all. A! The bullet to his argument. Thanks! >I'm not a lawyer, and I have no first-hand knowledge of the above >information; this is all bits and pieces I've heard from various sources. Sigh. What we need are some Hacker/Lawyer dual-class programmers out there, or is that not allowed by the rules (I'm looking at a pile of AD&D books here...). -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. \ kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM "Corrected!" -- Old Amiga tips file \ kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM Visit the House of Retrocomputing: / Perm. Email: XCOMM http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kpneal/www/ / kevinneal@bix.com
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